582 
mud-minnows, 
figure of, ii, 193 
tenacity of life in, i, 147 
mud-skippers, li, 465 
figure of, ii, 466 
muffle jaws, ii, 444 
Mugil, i, 32, 157, 343 3913 
u, 144, 219 
figure of, i, 330; ii, 221 
Mugilide, i, 206; ii, 219 
muki-muki, i, 183; ii, 420 
Milller, i, 384, 396, 405, 415, 
428, 609, 613; ii, 3, 24, 
39, 49, 144, 533 
on elastic spring, i, 96 
on ganoids, ii, 9 
on gas in swim-bladder, i, 
96 
on Lepidosteus, ii, 5 
portrait of, i, 399 
Mullerian duct, i, 28 
mullets, i, 117, 268, 328; 
39, 144, 215, 219, 
Goode on, ii, 219, 220 
Mullide, i, 206; ii, 257, 351- 
ii, 
221 
379 
Mullus, i, 261, 3935 ii, ees 
figure of, i, 322; li, 352 
Munster, iy 423 
munu, i, 322; Hi, 352 
Murena, i, 211, 391; il, 152 
figure of, ii, 153 
Murenesocida, li, 150 
Murenesox, i, 211; li, 150 
Murenide, i, 211; Ui, 152, 
155 . 
Murenolepida, ii, 541 
Murchison, i, 423 
murcielago, li, 458 
muroaji, li, 274 
muscles of the fish, i, 25 
muskallonge, 
figure of, ii, 192 
Musquaw whitefish, ii, 65 
Mustelus, i, 71, 541 
mutsu, li, 317 
mutton-fish, i, 324; ii, 518 
mutton-snapper, ii, 335 
figure of, i, 331 
Mycteroperca, i, 271; ii, 325, 
327 
figure of, ii, 327 
My iophide, i, 189, 
li, 132- 134, 526 
Myctophum, 1, 195; ii, 133, 
134 
figure of, ii, 133 
Myliobatis,'i, 557, 558 
Mylognathus, i, 565 
Mylostoma, i, 583, 584, 587, 
589, 590 
Mylostomida, i, 587 
myotomes, i, 71 
204; 
Index 
Myoxocephalus, ii, 445 
figure of, i, 219; ii, 446, 
447 
Myriacanthide, i, 566 
Myriacanthus, i, 566; ii, 255 
Myrichthys, 
figure of, ii, 151 
Myride, ii, 148, 150 ' 
Myriolepis, i ii, 14 
Myripristis, i, Pa 268, 271; 
ii, 254-250 
Myrocongride ii, 153 
Myrophis, i, 313 
Myrus, i, 259, 263; ii, 150 
Mysis, i, 317 
Mysore, 
walking-fish of, i, 167 
mptholeey of fishes, i, 359- 
Myxine, i, 198, 490, 593 
Myxinide, i, 489 
Myxobolus, i, 343 
Myxocyprinus, li, 173 
Myxodagnus, ii, 506 
Myxodes, ii, 508 
Myxosporidia, i, 342, 344 
Myzontes, i, 486 
Nagg’s headfish, i, 375, 376 
Naisia, ii, 32 
namazu, li, 188 
names of bones, i, 39 
names of fishes, i, 372 
nami-ho-hana, ii, 218 
Nandide, ii, 358 
Nannocharax, li, 162 
Nansenia, ii, 127 
Narcine, 
figure of, i, 185, 553 
Narcobatide, 
family of, i, 553 
Narcobatis, i, 553 
Nardo, i, 412 
Nassau, 
figure of, ii, 324 
natural selection, 
effect of, i, 318 
in fishes, i, 218 
process of, i, 297 
species changed by, i, 240 
Naucrates, ii, 272, 278 
figure of, ii, 273 
Nantichthys, ii li, 448 
Nebris, ii, 355 
Necturus, i, 157, 600 
needle-bearing filefish, 
figure of, ii, 414 
needle-fishes, i, 128 
figure of, ii, 210 
negro-chub, ii, 167 
negro-fish, ii, 324 
Nelson, i, 419 
on Anableps, ii, 196, 197 
Nemachilus, ii, 176 
hNematognathi, i, 405; ii, 9, 
40, 161, 178 
Nematistiide, ui, 278 
Nematocentrus, ii, 218 
Nematodes, i, 344 
Linton on, i, 352 
Nematonurus, ii, 541 
Nemichthyide, ii, 151 
Nemichthys, i, 211; ii, I5I 
figure of, 1, 17, 365; ii, 152 
jaws figured, i, 156 
Nemipterus, ii, 340 
Nemopteryx, ii, 539 
Neoceratodus, i, 79, 80, 100, 
116, 204, 450, 613 
eggs of, i, 618 
figure of, i, 614 
lower jaw of, figured, i, 616 
shoulder-girdle in, i, 68, 
609 
skull of, i, 67 
Neochanna, i, 252; ii, 206 
Neoclinus, ii, 462 
figure of, ii, 507 
Neoditrema, ii, 375 
Neoliparis, li, 455 
figure of, ii, 455 
Neopercis, ii, 502 
Neosebastes, ii, 433 
nerka, ii, 73 
nerve cells and fibres, i, 152 
nerves of fishes, i, 113, 114 
nervous system, i, 109-114 
nest-building, ii, 229 
of sticklebacks, ii, 230, 231 
nest of fish, i, 14, 172 
Nettastoma, i, 211, 259; ii, 
I51 
Nettastomida, ii, 148, 151 
neurentric canal, i, 138 
Newberry, i, 426, 428, 584, 
589 
New England, 
scanty fauna of, i, 302 
Newton, i, 426 
New Zealand, 
fauna of, i, 252 
nezupo, ii, 441 
nictitating membrane, i, 540 
nijinge-rijinge, i, 171, 172 
Nieuhof, i, 396 
Nilsson, i, 410 
Niphon, ii, 320 
nohu, ii, 434 
noises of fishes, i, 168, 169 
Nomeide, ii, 283 
nomenclature, i, 173 
beginning of, i, 374 
trinomial, i, 378 
of trunkfishes, i, 373 
Nordmann, i, 410 
northern blennies, i ii, 51x 
