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4 live minks with heavier wire-cloth, of smaller mesh, but never 
imagined that they could cut poultry netting.—Fved. Mather, Cold 
_ Spring Harbor, N. Y. 
_ Fauna of Beaufort, N. C.—Beaufort has long been a favorite 
locality for zoological collectors, and the recent establishment 
_ there of the marine laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University 
_ has brought it into greater prominence. A recent number of 
the Studies of the university contains four papers on the fauna 
_ of the locality. r. McMurrich catalogues nine species of sea- 
anemones, Sagartia pustulata and S. gracillima being new. The’ 
molluscs of the region are enumerated by Dr. H. L. Osborn. 
His list is confessedly incomplete, but sixty-one species being 
_ enumerated outside of the group of Opisthobranchs, where the 
forms were not identified. Professor Nachtrieb, in his account 
of the ten species of echinoderms, gives considerable informa- 
_ tion of value, in that he mentions the probable or ascertained 
_ times of spawning of each species. Prof. O. P. Jenkins enumer- 
_ ates one hundred and thirty-four species in his list of fishes, of 
_ which twenty-three are not included in any previous catalogue of 
3 the fish-fauna of the locality. 
luzzle and in the possession of two roots to the inferior tuber- 
cular tooth instead of one. 
The Chihuahua, or naked Mexican dog, is the Canis gibbus of 
€rnandez,? and Pellone of the Mexicans. I have examined the 
dentitions of three specimens of this dog, and Professor Duges 
described and figured that of a fourth. In none of them 1s 
ig : Academy, Philadelphia, 1879, p. 186. Cane < 
See Dr. A. Dugés, Naturaleza, Mexico, 1880 (1882), p. 14, for an article on this 
