1864.] pR. A. GUNTHER ON A NEW FISH FROM MADEIRA. 301 
The Philippine-Islands examples are smaller and more spotted on the 
breast than the Australian ; but the Celebes and Timor specimens 
are intermediate in these points. 
8. DENDROCYGNA EYTONI. 
Leptotarsis eytoni, Gould, B. Austr. vil. pl. 15 ; Eyton, Mon. 
Anat. p. 111. 
Dendrocygna eytoni, Gray, Cat. Gallinz, &c., p. 131. 
Hab. Northern Australia. 
Mus. Brit. 
Besides these species of Dendrocygna, of which I have seen and 
examined specimens, there appear to be two others which I have 
not yet met with, namely— 
(1.) DENDROCYGNA FULVA. 
Anas fulva, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 530. 
Dendrocygna fulva, Baird, B. N. Am. p. 771, pl. 63. 
Hab. Mexico (Gm.) ; Fort Tejon, California (Baird). 
This is perhaps not different from the next species. 
(2.) DENDROCYGNA VIRGATA. 
Anas virgata, Max. Reise, i. 322. 
dnas fulva, Max. Beitr. iv. 918; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 435. 
Hab. Middle Brazil; Rio Belmonte (Burm.). 
6. On a New Genus or PEepDICULATE FISH FROM THE SEA OF 
Maperra. By Dr. Atsrert Gintuer, F.Z.S. 
(Plate XXV.) 
Mr. J. Y. Johnson discovered during his last sojourn in Ma- 
deira, on the 24th December 1863, a fish which proves to be the type 
of a new genus, not only on account of its extraordinary form, but 
also on account of the absence of ventral fins. In the latter respect 
it agrees with Ceratias from the coast of Greenland, from which, 
however, it differs in its dentition. 
It must be extremely rare, as the specimen entrusted to me by 
Mr. Johnson for description, and presented by him to the British 
Museum, is the only ove which has ever come to the knowledge of 
naturalists. Neither the Rev. R. T. Lowe nor Mr. Johnson had 
heard of its existence, nor did the fishermen recognize it. It is evi- 
dently a deep-sea fish, inhabiting the same horizontal marine zone 
as Saccopharynz and Alepidosaurus. When brought to Mr. Johnson, 
the belly was much distended, and contained, rolled up spirally 
into a ball, a Scopeline fish, which measured 7} inches in length, 
and 1 inch in depth. Nevertheless it was tempted to take a 
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