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yarrellii from the Hugly ; both of these are Cat-fishes or Siluroids 

 (see family Siluridse, Wall-cases 9 and 10, and page 112). 

 Tunny. On the other side of the door-way leading into the Entrance 

 Hall is a large Table-case, 38, standing in front of Wall-case 17, 

 containing a very fine specimen of the Tunny, Thunnus thynnus 

 (fig. 4), 8 feet long, caught in the English Channel off Weymouth, 

 and also an Albacore, Thunnus alalonga ; these are Scombroid or 



Fig. 4. — Tunny, Thunnus thynnus. 

 (From Boulenger, Camb. Nat. Hist., vii, 1904, after Cuv. et Val.). 



Mackerel-like fishes (see Wall-case 15, and p. 165). Next follow 

 four Table-cases (39, 40, 41, 42), with a Barracuda, Sphyrtena 

 commersonii, from Mauritius (see Wall-case 11 and p. 136) ; a 

 large Sea-perch, Epinephelus lanceolatus, 7 feet 3 inches long, 

 from the Indian Ocean (see family Serranidse, Wall-case 13 and 

 page 147) ; and a skeleton and a stuffed specimen of the Angler, 

 Lophius piscatorius (family Lophiidse, Wall-case 20, floor; see 

 also page 193). 



British In Cabinet-case 43, standing in front of Wall-case 20, are 



Salmon- shown some Salmonoid Fishes of the British Isles; at the time of 



Fishes. writing the series is very incomplete. Other specimens of Salmonoid 

 Fishes are shown in the series of British Fresh-water Fishes in the 

 North Wall-case of the Pavilion at the West end of the Bird 

 Gallery, and some in Wall-case 7 of this Gallery. The tendency 

 of modern students of fishes is to diminish the number of species 

 to which Salmonoid fishes are relegated, and to regard the colouring 

 of the body as of little account compared with such characters as 



