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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
In the summer of 1890, Mr. Orland Coate, at that time one of Prof. Evermann’s 
students in the Indiana State Normal School, spent some time in the Panhandle of 
Texas, where he made a small but important collection. This collection embraced 11 
species and was made in Fulton and Spring creeks near Creswell. No fishes had 
ever been collected in that part of the State, and none in the upper Canadian since the 
time of the exploration of the Bed River by Captains Marcy and McClellan. 
As stated elsewhere in this paper, Prof. Evermann made collections of Texan 
fishes in 1891, chiefly about Galveston and Corpus Christi on the coast, and in the 
basins of the Neches, Trinity, and San Antonio rivers, and Buffalo Bayou. The total 
number of species obtained is 131, of which 67 are salt-water species and 64 are fresh- 
water forms. These are the most extensive collections ever made in Texas and add 
no fewer than 18 species to the known fresh water fauna of the State. The number of 
new species is 11. 
In the following pages are given the titles of the various papers which have 
dealt in any way with the fishes of Texas or the Rio Grande region. These titles 
have been arranged in chronological order, and under each is given a brief summary 
of the information which it contains. 
1853a. Spencer F. Baird and Charles Girard. Descriptions of New Species of Fishes collected 
by Mr. John H. Clark, on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, under Lt. Col. 
James D. Graham. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., August, 1853, 387-390. 
This is the first paper in which were published any of the ichthyological results 
of the explorations carried on in connection with the United States and Mexican 
Boundary Survey and the Pacific Railroad surveys. This paper was followed by 
others from time to time, all of which were published in the Proceedings of the Phila- 
delphia Academy, the final,reports appearing later in the volumes of the respective 
surveys. In this particular paper 17 species are given, all of which' were described 
as new. Of these 17 species, 1L were based upon specimens obtained in Texas, the 
other 6 having come from the basin of the Colorado of the West. As now understood, 
only 5 of these 11 nominal species are admitted as tenable species. 
In the following table are given (1) the page upon which the species is mentioned 
in the publication referred to; (2) a list of the nominal species given by Baird and 
Girard in the above-named paper as having come from the region covered by the 
geographic limits of the present report; (3) the present identification of each of those 
nominal species as now understood by us, and (4) the locality from which the speci- 
mens were obtained. Names of new species and new genera are printed in italics. 
This method of treatment is followed in the case of the various other papers which 
are summarized in this report. 
Page. 
Nominal species. 
Identification. 
Locality. 
387 
Pileoma carbonaria 
Etheostoma caprodes 
Rio Salado. 
388 
Boleosoma lepida. 
Etheostoma lepidum 
Upper tributaries of the Rio 
In ueces. 
388 
Pomotis aquilensis 
Lepomis cvanellus 
Eagle Pass. 
389 
Fundulus grand is 
Fundulus heteroclitus grandis 
Indianola. 
389 
Hydrargyra similis - . . . 
Cyprinodon elegans 
Fundulus similis 
Do. 
389 
Cyprinodon elegans 
Rio Grande. 
389 
Cyprinodon bovinus 
Cyprinodon variegatus 
Leon Springs, Rio Grande. 
390 
Cyprinodon gibbosus 
do 
Indianola. 
390 
Heterandria affinis 
Gambusia affinis 
Rio Medina and Rio Salado. 
390 
Hoterandria nobilis 
do 
Leon and Comanche Springs. 
Rio Sabinal, Rio Leona. Rio Nue- 
ces, and Elm Creek, all of the 
Nueces Basin. 
390 
Heterandria patruelis 
