668 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VoL. XXXIII. 
idealized career vividly epitomizes the experiences and traits of his 
tribe. Indeed, the author admits that in some of these stories the 
characters are pieced together of fragments relating to several indi- 
viduals, yet no violence is rendered to the general truthfulness of the 
narration in giving to the incidents the unity of a single individuality. 
It is evident that the author of Wild Animals I Have Known is 
a keen woodsman, as well as an accomplished artist and writer, and 
has given us a book that opens a new field to our vision —a book 
equally well adapted to young and old, and one which cannot fail to 
inspire interest in and kindness of feeling toward the beasts that are 
our kin. bk A 
Ichthyologia Ohiensis.'— Dr. Call should have;the thanks of 
American ichthyologists for his transcript of this valuable and very 
rare work by one of the pioneers of American faunistics. Only eight 
copies of the original text are known to be in existence. The trans- 
cript is from the original articles which appeared in the Western 
Review and Miscellaneous Magazine during the years 1819-21, and 
afterwards reprinted from the same type in one volume. A biograph- 
ical sketch of seven and an essay of eleven pages on the ichthyologic 
work of Rafinesque precede the text of the /hthyologia, which is 
followed by a bibliography of thirty-three titles and an appendix 
containing the transcript of an autograph letter with the facsimile of 
a drawing by Rafinesque of Pomolobus chrysochloris. The book is 
handsomely printed on heavy paper and is limited to 250 numbered 
copies. 
Recent Contributions of Dr. Boulenger to Ichthyology. — Dr. G. 
A. Boulenger, of the British Museum, has published a third fascicle 
of materials for the fauna of the Congo, containing descriptions and 
plates of many new species, chiefly Siluroids. This series is printed 
at Brussels under the auspices of the Congo Free State, and reflects 
great credit on the public spirit of that late comer into the assembly 
of nations. Dr. Boulenger gives in the Buletin of the University of 
Turin a report on the fishes collected by Dr. Enrico Festa about 
Panama. The new species are the following: Piabucina festre from 
1 Rafinesque, C. Jchthyologia Ohiensis; or, Natural History of the Fishes 
Inhabiting the River Ohio and its Tributary Streams. A Verbatim et Literatim 
Reprint of the Original, with a Sketch of the Life, the Ichthyologic Work, and 
the Ichthyological Bibliography of Rafinesque, by Richard Ellsworth Call, Cleve- 
land. The Burrows Bros. Co., 1899. 175 pp., 8vo, portrait. 
