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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



[Vol. XLr 



In the 24th Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, Dr. 

 H. C. Williamson describes the small cod-fish, Gadus mimiius and 

 Gadus esmarki, and records two cases of hermaphroditism in the 

 common cod-fish. 



The fourth part of the Fishes of Japan by Otaki, Fujita and Higur- 

 ashi appears with descriptions in English and Japanese and with 

 excellent colored figures of the common 'Tai,' the "national fish" of 

 Japan, {Pagrus major), oi the Ayu {Plecoglosmus altivelis), next to- 

 the American Eulachon, the finest of all food-fishes, and other spe- 



In the Zoological Series of the Field Columbian Museum, Dr. T. 

 H. Bean publishes a catalogue of the Fishes of Bermuda. 261 species 

 are recorded, many of the more rare forms being figured. The new 

 species, previously described in the Proceedings of the Biological 

 Society of Washington, vol. XIX, for 1906, are the following: Hippo- 

 campus hrunneus, ( = H. hudsonius Jordan & Evermann, not of 

 DeKay), Holocentrus meeki, Eupomacentrus chrysus, Iridio decoratus, 

 Iridio meyeri, Iridio microstomus, Cryptotomus crassiceps, Mona- 

 canthus tuckeri, Rhinogobius mowbrayi, Lahrisomus lentiginosus, 



In the series of Occasional Papers of the Bcrnicc Pauahi ^riiscuni 

 at Honolulu Alvin Scale gives a list of "Fislu-s of the South Pncific" 

 collected by him in the Marquesas, Tahiti. Solonuin Islaiids, and 

 elsewhere in the South Seas. Numerous ww s|K ( i( s arc dcsc rilxMl, 

 and illustrated in not very satisfactory fashion ])v j)h()t(>(rraphs 



In the same series, William A. Bryan describes a few new or rare 

 fishes from Honolulu. 



In the Records of the Australian Museum, VI, 1906, Edgar R. 

 Waite gives descriptions of Australian and Tasmanian fishes, and 

 studies in Australian Sharks, with photographs of the egg cases of 



In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Hugh 

 'SI. Smith and Alvin Scale describe a number of species from the 



III tlic Hiillctiii of the Michigan Fish Commission, No. 8, Mr. Ellis 

 L. Micliacl (•atal..<^s the fislics of :\Iichigan, with rcfcretur to all 



Nettling Hairs of the Brown-tail Moth.' It is well known that 



1 Tyzzer, E. E. The pathology of the brown-tail moth dennatitis. Journ.. 

 of Med. Res., vol. 16, pp. 43-64. 



