, 1034 General Notes. i [Nor 
the United States National Museum. This collection is rich in 
formed the bases of both Dana’s and Verrill’s descriptions of 
two large American exploring expeditions. In all fifty-nine — 
species are enumerated. Later in the same volume he does the _ 
same work for the species of Porites and Synarza. Twenty- 
three species of Porites (including P. branneri nov.) and three of - 
Synaræa are included. 
linii. my 
In the same journal (Zool. Anzeiger, No. 261) Dr. Çi Zen ‘ 
notices a strange instance of batrachian teratology. In is! i 
- urinary bladder of a specimen of Salamandra maculata he faund 
a normal larva of the same species, pigmented, and two and one l 
half centimetres in length. ble d 
Mr. Charles H. Townsend contributes a series of krs 
field-notes on the mammals, birds, and reptiles of Northern vat 
; 1 : 887. Among 
_ fornia to the Proceedings U. S. National Mus. for 5 be the tere 
the hab 
pag ae cranial characters which he regards 
e Canada lynx. neg OF E 
Jordan oe Evermann give a review of the food fishes o 
diana in the last Agricultural Report of that State. , the mat- 
hundred and fifty species but about fifty ever appear 17 wn in the 
kets as food-fishes. The lake-sturgeon is said to Sp to tho 
rivers in June, the red-horse in May,—points of interest 
who are studying Teleost embryology. 
acters of each of the parent species re pectively- 
