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2. Delay, " Zoology of New York." Part IV. Fishes. 

 (Few York, 1842, 4to.) 



3, " Keports of the United States Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries." (5 vols. Washingt. 1873-79, 8vo. In progress. 

 Contains most valuable information.) 



Besides these works, numerous descriptions of North 

 American freshwater fishes have been pubKshed in the 

 Reports of the various U. S. Government expeditions, and 

 in North American scientific journals, by Storer, Baird, 

 Girard, W. 0. Ayres, Coipe, Jordan, Brown Goode, etc. ; but 

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

 of the United States is still a desideratum. 



I. — Ja-pan. 

 1. " Fauna Japonica," Poissons par H. Schhgel. (Lugd. 

 Bat. 1850, fol.) 



J. — East Indies; Trojncal j)arts of the Indian andPacific Oceans. 



1. E. BilppeU, " Atlas zu der Eeise im Nordlichen Afrika." 

 (Frankf. 1828, fol.) 



2. E. Eiippell, "Neue Wirbelthiere. Fische." (Frankf. 

 1837, foL) 



These two works form the standard works for the student 

 of the Fishes of the Red Sea, and are distinguished by a rare 

 conscientiousness and faithfulness of the descriptions and 

 figures ; so that there is no other part of the tropical seas, 

 with the fishes of which we are so intimately acquainted, as 

 with those of the Red Sea. But these works have a still 

 wider range of usefulness, in as much as only a small propor- 

 tion of the fishes is limited to that area, the majority being 

 distributed over the Indian Ocean into Polynesia. Riippell's 

 works were supplemented by the two first of the following 

 works : — 



3. E. L. Playfair and A. Gunther, " The Fishes of Zanzi- 

 bar." (Lond. 1866, 4to) ; and 



