THE ANxXALS 



AND 



MAGAZLXE OF XATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 4. APRIL 1898. 



XLII. — Report on a Collection of Fishes from Neicchwang^ 

 North China. Bj Dr. A. GiJXTHER, F.R.S. 



[Plate XIII.] 



Dr. W. Morrison, who, after a long residence at Newchwang 

 in l^Ianchuria, has recently returned home, has brought a 

 small collection of well-preserved specimens of fishes which 

 are usually sold in the market for food. They are caught 

 in the river and estuary of the Liao-ho, and are the 

 first which are described from that river. The number of 

 species is twenty-twOj nearly all of which are known to occur 

 also in the waters of the southern coast of the Gulf of Pechelee 

 and in the rivers still further south. On the other hand, 

 although the tributaries of the Liao-ho are separated from 

 those of the Amur by a watershed in places under a mile in 

 breadth, the fish-faunas of these two sj'stems seem to be very 

 different, to judge from Dybowsky's descriptions of the Amur 

 fishes. No Salmonoids from the Liao-ho were ever seen by 

 Dr. Morrison ; those sold at Newchwang (and they were in 

 large quantities) came from the Amur. 



Another point of interest attaclied to this collection was 

 that it contained species evidently seen and figured by 

 Basilewsky, who obtained the materials for his paper in Nouv. 

 Mem. Soc. Impdr. Nat. Moscou, 1855, chiefly at Pekin, 



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