THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL    VOLUME 108, NUMBER 2, PAGE 405          AUGUST 1994

   THE MONTREAL BLUE GALAXY SURVEY. II. SECOND LIST OF UV-BRIGHT CANDIDATES

                         ROGER COZIOL AND SERGE DEMERS

Departement de Physique, Observatoire du Mont Megantic, Universite de Montreal,
                       Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 Canada
     Electronic mail: coziol@astro.umontreal.ca, demers@astro.umontreal.ca

                                  MIRIAM PENA

       Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
                Apdo. Postal 70-264, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico
                   Electronic mail: miriam@astroscu.unam.mx

                                 REMI BARNEOUD

Departement de Physique, Observatoire du Mont Megantic, Universite de Montreal,
                       Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 Canada
                 Electronic mail: barneoud@astro.umontreal.ca


                                   ABSTRACT
    
    We present and discuss the second list of the Montreal Blue Galaxy
    survey.  Following the inspection of 71 plates, we found 237 new
    candidates with B < 15.5.  73 percent of them are also detected by
    IRAS.  Spectrophotometry was carried out, at medium resolution, for a
    subset of 40 objects leading to the identification of three new AGNs
    and producing 13 new radial velocities.  Spectral classification of our
    candidates confirms our previous finding that the majority of our
    candidates are starburst nucleus galaxies similar to the objects
    studied by Balzano [ApJ, 268, 602 (1983)].  Our survey is biased
    against the high excitation starburst H II galaxies and the LINER
    galaxies.  Metallicities of our galaxies are found to be from
    log(O/H)=8.4 to 9.0, which suggests galaxies in advanced stages of
    chemical evolution.