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2. W. Yarrll: A History of British Fishes. (Srd edit. Lond., 



1859, 8vo.) 



3, J. Couch : A History of the Fishes of the British Islands. 



(Lond., 1862-5, 8vo.) 



Denmark and Scandinavia. 



1. H. Kroyer: Danmark's Fiske. (Kjobnh, 1838-53, 8vo.) 



2. S. Nilsson : Skandinavisk Fauna. (VoL lY, Fiskarna. Lund., 



1855, 8vo.) 



3. Fries och Esktrilm : Skandinavisk Fauna. (Stockh., 1836, 4to, 



with excellent plates.) 



Russia. 



1. Nordmann : Ichthyologie Pontique, in Voj^age dans la Russie 

 meridionale de Demidoff. (Tom. III. Paris, 1840, 8vo, 

 atlas fol.) 



Germany. 



1. Heck el and Kuer : Die Susswasser-fische ; von IMitteleuropa. 

 (Leipz., 1863, 8vo.) 



Italy and Mediterranean. 



1. Bonaparte : Iconografia della Fauna Italica. (Tom. III. Pesci. 



Roma, 1832-41, foL, incomplete.) 



2. Costa : Fauna del Regno di Napoli. Pesci. (Napoli, 4to, about 



1850, incomplete.) 



France. 



1. E. Blanchard : Les Poissons des eaux douces de la France, 

 (Paris, 1866, 8vo.) 



Pyrenean Peninsula. 



The fresh-water Fish-fauna of Spain and Portugal was almost unknoAvn, 

 until F. Steindacher paid some visits to those countries for the purpose 

 of exploring the principal I'ivers. His discoveries are described in 

 several papers in the Sitzimgsberichte der Akademie Zu Wien. B. du 

 Bocage and F. Capello contributed towards the knowledge of the marine 

 fishes on the coast of Portugal. (Journ. Science Acad. Lisb.) 



North America. 



1. J.Richardson: Fauna Boreali Americana. (Part III. Fishes. 



Lond., 1836, 4to.) The species described in this work are 

 nearly all from the British possessions in the North. 



2. Dekay : Zoology of New York. (Part lY. Fishes. New 



York, 1842, 4to.) 



3. Reports of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. 



(5 vols. Washington, 1873-79, 8vo. In progress. Contains 

 most valuable information.) 



Besides these works, numerous descriptions of North American fresh- 

 water fishes have been published in the reports of the various U. S. 

 Government expeditions, and in North American scientific journals, by 

 Storer, Baird, Girard, "VV. O. -Ayres, Cape, Jordan, Brown, Goode, &c. ; 

 but a good general, and especially critical, account of the fishes of the 

 United States is still a desideratum. 



