79 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXIV. 
almost solely on the writings of other authors, notably those of his 
associate and close friend, Peter Artedi, the “ father of ichthyology." 
There was, however, in Linnzus's possession a small collection of 
fish skins, the most important of these containing seventy-one spe- 
cies, having been sent from Charleston, South Carolina, by Dr. 
Alexander Garden. 
Most of this collection is now preserved in the Collection of the 
Linnzan Society of London. Dr. Albert Günther, president of this 
society, in a recent address, has given an account of each of these 
specimens. This account is in greater detail than one given in 1386 
by Messrs. Goode and Bean, and some of its conclusions have an 
important bearing on the nomenclature of North American fishes. 
The examinations of Dr. Günther necessitate the following changes 
from the names lately accepted by Jordan and Evermann: Felichthys 
felis (Linnzus) for the Gaff topsail catfish, instead of <Az/urichthys 
marinus (Mitchill); Galeichthys milberti (Cuv. and Val.), instead of 
G. felis; if Dr. Giinther’s identification of Sz/uris felis is correct, 
which we cannot doubt, it is strange that Linnaeus counted six 
barbels when but four exist; EZpinephelus guttatus (Linnzeus), instead 
of E. maculosus Cuv. and Val. (lunulatus, apua, and catus of authors) ; 
Promicrops itaiara (Lichtenstein), instead of P. guttatus. 
Dr. Günther shows that in forming his complex Perca guttata, 
Linnzus had a specimen in hand from which his color notes were 
drawn. Excluding erroneous synonyms, this specimen may be re- 
garded as the typical P. guttata. Dr. Günther notes that Szellifer 
Janceolatus has the downward directed spine of the subgenus Zesti- 
dium. He, however, wrongly identifies it with the type of the latter 
group, S. Z/ecebrosus, from Panama. The two species differ notably 
in numbers of fin rays and gill rakers. 
Besides these specimens, we may note that Dr. Einar Lónnberg has 
given a supplementary account of the Linnzan fishes in the Univer- 
sity of Upsala. The original type of Zxocwtus volitans is the flying 
fish called Halocypselus evolans, as indeed the description indicates. 
Exoccetus is therefore the right name for the group of flying fishes 
having short ventrals, the Halocypselus of Weinland, while the name 
Cypselurus of Swainson is revived for the large flying fishes. 
D. S. J; 
Meek on the Fishes of Lake Muskoka. — In the publications of 
the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, Dr. Seth E. Meek has 
notes on the fishes of Lake Muskoka at Gravenhurst, Ontario. One 
