440 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vor. XXXIV. 
The characters of position of lateral line and numbers of pectoral 
rays used by Jordan and Evermann as a clue in this group are not 
noted by Dr. Smitt. DS F 
Abbott on Chilean Fishes. — Mr. James F. Abbott, a graduate 
student of Stanford University, now teacher in a Japanese academy 
at Otsu, gives in the Proceedings of the Academy at Philadelphia 
notes on fishes collected at Valparaiso by Rear-Admiral Beardslee, 
U. S. N. Among these is a species of Hippoglossina macrops, which 
was originally, perhaps, incorrectly recorded as from Mazatlan. There 
is also a new species of Sebastodes, allied to S. oculatus and S. dar- 
wini, To this Abbott gives the name of Sebastodes jenynsi. 
» 
Moreno on the Olfactory Nerves of Fishes. — In the Annals of 
the Natural History Society of Madrid, José Madrid Moreno gives an 
account of his studies of the olfactory nerves of fishes carried on in 
the laboratory at Naples. The anatomy of these nerves and their 
terminations is described in species of Scylliorhinus, Catulus, Scor- 
pzna, Raja, Pagellus, and Serranus. D Sy 
California Water Birds — No. IV (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. Zoöl., 
Vol. II, No. 3, 1900). — Mr. Leverett M. Loomis gives us the latest 
results of his studies on the migration of sea birds on the western 
coast of North America. The bulk of the paper consists of a 
detailed record of observations made at Monterey Bay and vicinity 
from Sept. 18, 1896, to Nov. 14 of the same year; but the portion 
of most interest, at least to the general zoólogist, is the discussion 
of the data obtained, and the conclusions drawn. 
The following extracts will indicate not merely the results arrived 
at by the author, but as well the scope of his studies in this difficult 
but fascinating field; for the evidence on which the conclusions 
rest, the paper itself must be consulted. 
“ These investigations seem to prove (1) that the Shearwaters off 
Monterey find their position and shape their course by the land- 
marks ; (2) that birds do not possess a mysterious superhuman 
faculty for determining direction, 7 the Shearwaters would not 
have been bewildered in the fo 
“ It seems reasonable to conclude that young birds in the journey 
from their birthplace to the winter home of the species are depend- 
ent upon the guidance of the old birds who know the way, because 
they have traveled it.” 
