92 General Notes. [Jan. 
FisHes.—M. Yves Delage maintains, contrary to the opinion 
of Gunther, that the Leptocephala are normal larvæ, capable of 
transformation. So far from suffering through their distance 
from the coast, he believes that they finally reach it after having 
passed through their transformation. The pollack feeds upon 
these larve. . 
of Mexico. 
_ The English quarterly journal of Ornithology entitled The 
Tis, contains in its last issue a valuable article upon the wings 
of birds, by C. J. Sundeval, with a synopsis of the number of 
arm-remiges to be found in various species; some notes upon 
the genus Empidonax, by Mr. R. Ridgway, describing a new 
species and defining eighteen known species ; two papers by Mr. 
R. B. Sharpe on birds from Fao, in the Persian Gulf, and others 
from Bushire, on the same gulf; and a list of the birds obtained 
by Mr. H. Whitely in British Guiana, as well as some shorter 
Papers. The total number’ of birds on the Guiana list is six 
hundred and twenty-five, of which thirty-six are migratory or — 
cos -sea-birds. About sixty and one-half per cent. of the — 
