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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



Places where specimens were obtained 

 Orders of Fish established by Cuvier . 

 M. Agassiz's arrangement (note) 



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OSSEOUS FISHES. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII 



1, 108 



Percoide^: . . 1, 30 



1. Perca flavescens (pi. 74) . 1 



2. „ acuta ... 4 



3. „ (Huro) nigricans . 4 



4. Labrax notatus ... 8 



5. Lucioperca Americana . . 10 

 Okow* .... 14 



6. Lucioperca Canadensis . . 11 



7. Centrarchus seneus (pi. 75) . 18 

 Cichla fasciata . - .23 



„ minima ... 24 



8. Pomotis vulgaris (pi. 76) .24 



9. Trichodon Stelleri . . 29 

 Geog. distribution of Percoide^;, &c. 30 

 Table of percoid genera . 34 



Molli ..... 35 



Cottoide^, geog. distribution, &c. . 36 



Table of cottoid genera . . 39 



Trigla .... 39 



10. Dactylopterus volitans . . 40 



1 1 . Cottus cognatus . . 40 

 126. „ asper (pi. 95, f. 1) 295,313 



12. „ polaris ... 43 



13. Cottus hexacornis 

 14. 



15. 

 16. 



17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22. 



44 

 octodecimspinosus . 46 



Grcenlandicus . 46, 297, 314 



scorpioides . 47 



porosus . . .47 



polyacanthocephalus . 48 



pistilliger . .48 



(Aspidophorus) Europseus 48 

 „ acipenserinus 49 



„ monopterygius 50 



23. Hemitripterus Americanus . 50 



24. Hemilepidotus trachurus . 51 



33. Temnistia ventricosa . . 59 

 127. Scorpaena bufo . . . 300 



25. „ (Sebastes) Norvegica . 52 



26. „ „ variabilis 53 



27. Blepsias trilobus . . .53 

 Gasterosteus Noveboracensis 54, 56 



29. „ niger . . 56 



30. „ biaculeatus . . 56 



31. „ concinnus . 57 



32. „ occidentalis . . 58 



Sci^enoidejE, geog. distribution, &c. 61 



Table of sciaenoid genera . . 63 



34. Scisena (Corvina) Richardsonii (pi. 77) 64 



* The receipt of specimens of the Okow since the sheets describing it went to the press prove it to be the Lucio-perca 

 Americana. 





