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Copenhagen, together with extracts from that naturalist's not easily- 

 accessible memoir. There is a beautifully cut figure of Crenilabrus 

 rupestris, which formed the subject of an interesting paper by Mr. 

 Selby in an early number of this periodical, and which (since atten- 

 tion has been directed to the species) has been met with on several 

 parts of the English and Irish shores. In the paper alluded to ' Mag. 

 of Zool. andBot.' i. p. 137, the third specimen is said to have been 

 found on the shore near " Barncleugh :" there is no such place, the 

 name is a misprint for Bamborough, which we regret to see copied by 

 Mr. Yarrell, as well as by foreign writers without blame on their parts, 

 and we trust that this notice will tend to correction. The Pomera- 

 nian Bream, C. Buggenhaggii, is a fine addition to our Ci/prinid(B, and 

 has been taken in Dagenhambreach, Essex, and by Mr. Thompson 

 in the river Logan near Belfast. Of the very singular genus Hemi- 

 ramphus, a fish is represented under the title of H. Europeeus, de- 

 tected several years since by Mr. Couch of Polpero. In the descrip- 

 tion Mr. Yarrell remarks, " one question may be hazarded : — Is this 

 fish, with its unequally developed jaws, the very young state of our 

 common Garfish, Belone vulgaris ?" and we would request our ich- 

 thyologists to attend to this query, very interesting and important, 

 whether it proves us to have a British member of the genus Hemi- 

 ramphus, or that the lengthened jaw is only a peculiar structure in 

 another division ; and perhaps touching upon another question im- 

 mediately suggested by Mr. Yarrell's surmise, — whether or not the 

 Hemiramphi may not be all a young or immature form of this fish, and 

 if so what is the use of the elongation of the under jaw at this early 

 period } Among the Salmonidce we have a second figure of S.ferox 

 from an Irish specimen, authenticating its Irish range. Mr. Yarrell 

 also mentions having received specimens of trout weighing 32 and 

 34 lbs. from Lake Wenern, and which are considered identical with the 

 British fish. A species of smelt, Osmerus Hebridicus, taken near the 

 Isle of Bute, is given as new to Britain and to ichythology. The 

 powan of Loch Lomond, and poUan of Loch Neagh, are also now 

 figured. Platessa elongata, taken at Stoford, in Bridgewater Bay, is 

 described as new to ichthyology. Among the British Sturgeons 

 ichthyologists will find interesting employment, and we refer to 

 Mr. Yarrell's finely cut figures of the heads of two, and to his short 

 observations for excitement. Echinorhinus spinosus is a very inter- 

 esting addition, but surely there is much diflference between Mr. Yar- 

 rell's figure and Dr. Smitii's in the proportion and relative positions 

 of the members, and also in the form of the teeth. We judge now 

 only from the figures before us. 



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