Dr. A. Giinther on a Collection of CJdnese Fishes. "dll 



are white. The eyebrow and face are minutely spotted with 

 white ; the upper parts, except the crown, .have transverse 

 bands of white extending across the breadth of the black in 

 each feather, the feathers of the hind neck having one band, 

 the dorsals mostly two narrower ones, the scapulars -three, and 

 the wing-coverts more scattered ones. The feathers of the 

 hind neck have their margins and a lower hidden band white. 

 The flanks, the tibials, and the under tail-coverts are brown, 

 with a double band of white. The tail is black, each feather 

 with two narrow cross bars of white. The ten primaries of 

 the wing are light hair-brown, the first white on the outer 

 web ; the seven secondaries white on their apical two thirds, 

 light brown on basal third, the first of the series having the 

 white mottled with brown. 



Bill deep brown, greenish yellow on lower mandible at 

 base and on rictus. Legs and feet light flesh-brown, dark on 

 joints and on claws. Iris brown. Length 5 inches. Wing 3, 

 0*4 longer than tertiaries, 0'25 short of tail ; first quill 0"45 

 shorter than the second and longest. Bill in front 0"48, from 

 gape 0*55. Tibia bare only just above joint ; tarse 0'78 ; 

 middle toe and claw 1'08. Tail about 1*2, composed of appa- 

 rently six stifiish feathers, entirely covered by upper and lower 

 coverts, and hard to distinguish. 



XLVI. — On a Collection of Fishes from Chefoo^ North China. 

 By Dr. Albeet Gunther, F.R.S. 



The collection of Chinese fishes sent by Mr. Swinhoe to the 

 British Museum, and described in this volume (pp. 239-250), 

 has been supplemented by a second, smaller one, made by the 

 same gentleman at Chefoo. It contains several new forms, 

 beside some others which are worthy of notice. 



1. Sehastes nigromaculatvs^ sp. n. 



D. 12 I i. A. |. L. lat. 75. 



The height of the body is a little less than the length of the 

 head, and one third of tlie total (without caudal). Scales rather 

 irregular. Upper surface of the head scaly, flat, with very 

 low plain ridges, without prominent spines. Superciliary 

 edge not elevated ; the width of the interorbital space is one 

 fifth of the length of the head. Lower margin of the iwce- 

 orhital and edge of the prceoperculum with acute spines^ thus 

 distinguishing this species from S. inermis. The maxillary 

 reaches nearly to the vertical from the hind margin of the 



