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1M39 — Hisroiro Nutiuello des Poissons, par M. lo B"" Cuvier, . . . ; et pur M. Valen- 

 cieunes, . . . Toiiioquatorziciao. A. Paris, cliuz Pitois-Li-viaultet C, . . . , 

 l^A'J. [HJ ,.(1. xxii, 1(14 pp., :{ 1. ; 4^ «>d. xx, 344 pp., :{ 1.— pi. ;!8'J-4-^0.] 



Suite (111 livri! .suiziomo. — Labruitlcs. 



Livio <lix-.scphiOiiU'. — Dcs Malaco{iU;i.vjjien8. Des Siluroidcs. 



(No wc.Ht-coast species iKitici'd J 



TLe Zoology of Cai)t:iiii IJi-echuy's Voyago; compiled from tlic collections and 

 uotes mado by Captain Beecbcy, tbo otficcrs anJ naturalist of tbo Expe- 

 dition, during a Voyage to tbe Pacilic and Bebring's .straits performed in 

 bis M.ijesty's Sliip Blossom, uudor tbe command of Captain F. W. IJeechey, 

 R. N., F. R. S., &.C., &c. in tbe years 1825, 26, 27, and 28. By J. Ricbardson, 

 M. D., F. R. S., &.C. ; N. A. Vigors, E^iq., A. M., F. R. S., &.c. ; G. T. Lay, Esq. ; 

 E.T. Bennett, Esq., F. L. S., &c.; tbo Rev. W. Bucklaud, D. D., F. R. S., 

 F. L. S., F. G. S., »fcc. and G. B. Sowerby, Esq. — Illustrated witb upwards of 

 fifty finely coloured plates, by Soworby. — Publisbed under tbo autbority of 

 tbe Lords Commissioners of tbo Admiralty. = London : Henry G. Bobu, 4, 

 York Street, Coveut G.irden.— MDCCCXXXIX. 



Fisbes; by G. T. Lay, Esq., jiiid E. T. Bennett, Esq., F. L. S.,&c. pp. 



41-75, pi. l.VilJ. 

 [N. sp. Ohimcera colliei (p. 71, pi. 2!). 



Th'is voliirao is intercstiu;; .is boinj; tlio first publication in which any attempt haa boen 

 madu to scieutitically indicate the fitthesof the coast. Tbo "uaturulist" of the expedi(iou 

 wa.s, however, iticoiiipotent for the tusk, a\u\ tbo notes taken evinco that he was not 

 snfliciently verseil in the riidimenta of ichthyology to know what to obaervo. Neverthe- 

 less, Ihu notes have an interest', if not of importance, enough to tran.scribo what relates 

 to the regions in question : — 



"Otr Saint Lawrence Island wa^ caught, in the dri-ds^o a fish apparently allied to the 

 genii.s Liparis, Art. It had the 'ventral tins p'aced before the pectorals, but united and 

 coutiouous with tlieui; aflat, raised, and rou;,;h tubercle, of nearly tlio diameter of an 

 En;;liHh sixpeiici!, was seated forward between the pectorals, its anterior jiart reaching as 

 far as the veiitrals; this may boof use in copulation : its caca wen^ pretty numerous.' — C. 

 The roughness of this tubercle renders it dillicult to refer the fish to any known species; 

 but it is i)robabIy nearly related to the Cyclopterwi gelatmoniu, I'M., n Xipart« which is 

 known to inhabit the seas in which this was obtained. The existence of cteca removes it 

 from Lcpadogaster, Gouan. 



"Kotzehue Sound affonled a specimen of a new species of Ophidium, L., the Oph. ttiijtnn. 



" On the coast of California, a little to the northwards of tho harbour of San Francisco, 

 ail OrUtaf}orUeiui wa< nu^t with, app.\rently tho Orth. inola., lU. They swam about the 

 ship Willi the dorsil tin frequently elevated above tbe surface." (p. .50.) 



"Oa tho coast of California, at Monterey, Mr. Collie's notes mention the occurrence of 

 [1] a species of Sp'trtm. of two Scombri, and of a Clupea. [i] The lirst of the Seombrida; is 

 apparently a Scomber, Cnv. ; it was 'smaller than tlio mackerel; it was marked on the 

 back with cross waved narrow bands of black and greenish blue; its first dorsal fin had 

 nine spines, and there were four small ]iinnules behind tlii> second dorsal and tho anal: it 

 had a simple air-bladder of moderate size, and an iininiMise number id' fceca, with a stomach 

 cs^teuding the whole lengtli of the ahdoineii, narrow, tapjring lo tho |)osterior part, and 

 cov»red throughout nearly its whnlo length with the mill.? Its internal meiiibriiiie forms 

 longitadinal folds; the intestines have three convolutions.'— C. This fisli occurred iu 

 shoals. [.)) Tho seoimd species was met with but once. It is a Caratur, Cuv., of which 

 'the teeth in the upper maxillary are scarcely to be felt: tho pectorals reach nearly to o]*- 

 posite the anus: a doulile narrow stripe of di-epcr blue than tho general surface runs back- 

 wards on each side of the llrst dorsal fin to o)i|Hisite its termination, tin- two jMrts being 

 separatwl by a bro-id line of dirty while, which has a narrow, dark-coloured line along its 

 middle: there are no distinct divisions in the anal and second dorsal tins: the uir-bladder 

 is simple, and small, and extends from the/oiiCf-x to the anuji ; the stomach is niiii'h shorter 

 than In the pncediiig species; the etrra, althoiigli iiiinierous, are le.ss .so tliitii in it. ami the 

 lnl(«aline is folded in lhi> same niaaner."— C. From the nature of the colouring nf this fish, 

 as dotcribod by Mr. (JoUie, there can bo little doubt of it« coDstitutiog a tlistinct specica. 



