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Pomotis speciosus 
Pomotis fallax 
Pomotis convexifrons . 
Pomotis nefastus 
Pomotis heros 
Bryttus longulus 
Grystes nuecensis 
Herichthys cyanoputtatus 
Ailurichihys marinus 
Arius equestns 
Pimelodus a finis 
Astyanax argentatus 
Catostomus congest™ 
Catostomns plebeius 
Carpiodes tumidus 
Gila pulchella 
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Lepomis heros 
Lepomis cy anellus 
Micropterus salmoides 
Heros cyanoguttatus 
Felichth vs marinus 
Tachysurus felis 
Ictalurus furcatus 
Tetragonopterus argentatus . 
Moxostoma congestum 
Pantosteus plebeius 
Carpiodes velifer tumidus . . . 
Leuciscus nigrescens 
Lepomis pallidus . . 
Lepomis megalotis. 
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Brownsville, Texas. 
Elm Creek, Texas. 
Rio Cibolo, Texas. 
Rio Cibolo and Rio Salado. 
•Rio Cibolo, Texas. 
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Rio Nueces and Rio Frio. 
Brownsville (fresh water). 
Indianola, Texas. 
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Rio Grande. 
Upper tributaries of Rio Nueces. 
Rio Salado, Texas. 
Rio Mimbres. 
Near Fort Brown, Texas. 
Rio Mimbres. 
1854c. S. F. Baird and Charles Girard. Notice of a new genus of Cyprinidw. Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Pliila. 1854, 158. 
In this paper the genus Cochlognathus is established and the species Cochlognathus 
ornatus is first described. The specimens upon which the genus and species were 
based were collected by Capt. Van Vliet, at Brownsville, Tex. 
1856«. Charles Girard, m. d. Researches upon the Cyprinoid Fishes inhabiting the fresh waters 
of the United States of America west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the 
Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., September, 1856, 
165-213. , 
This interesting, important, but somewhat troublesome paper also appeared in 
an author’s edition with repagination, pp. 1-54, the last four pages being an “Alpha- 
betical List of the [62] species collected by the United States and Mexican Boundary 
Commission, Maj. Wm. H. Emory, Commissioner,” and an “Index to the Systematic 
Names not included in the foregoing List.” This list contains, of course, only the 
Cyprinidw and Catostomidce of the Mexican Boundary Survey. As this paper con- 
tains the original descriptions of so many species from Texas and the Bio Grande 
basin, it seems proper to reprint a portion of that part referring to the various 
sources from which the collections were obtained. He says : 
The fishes which are the subject of the present memoir were collected at different times and 
periods by the several naturalists and surgeons attached to the various surveys undertaken within 
the five years past. And, first of all, there is the survey of the United States and Mexican boundary, 
from 1851 to 1855. John H. Clark, who accompanied Col. J. D. Graham in 1851, collected extensively 
in the rivers and creeks of Texas and New Mexico. Under Maj. W. H. Emory, now commissioner of 
the boundary line, numerous collections were made by Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly in Texas, in the valley of 
the Rio Grande and provinces of Chihuahua and Sonora. 
The survey of routes for a railroad to the Pacific was commenced in 1853 and continued until 
1855. Lieut. A. W. Whipple, under whose command the survey near the thirty-fifth parallel of lati- 
tude was effected, in securing the services of Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly contributed very largely to our col- 
lections of fishes from Texas and the numerous tributaries of the Arkansas River. H. B. Mollhausen, 
artist to the same expedition, showed also much zeal and industry for collecting. * * * r phe 
eastern end of the same thirty-second parallel was explored by Capt. John Pope, who, having attached 
to his party Dr. Geo. C. Shumard, interesting specimens were obtained therefrom. * * * Lieut. 
D. N. Couch, U. S. A., explored, in the winter of 1852-53, the Mexican provinces of Tamaulipas, New 
Leon, and Coahuila, thus adding materials towards an elucidation of the natural history of the 
country south of the Rio Grande del Norte (Rio Bravo), and but partially explored by the United 
States and Mexican Boundary Commission. * * * To John Potts, esq., of Chihuahua, we owe 
some very interesting species from the hydrographic basin of Chihuahua River and the valley of 
Mexico. 
