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such as Mr. ^Yaite coiiteinplates will yield double this number of shore- 

 fishes, although the isolation of Xew Zealand is doubtless a reason 

 why the fauna is relatively scanty as compared, for example, with that 

 of Japan. The shore-fishes of New Zealand are for the most part 

 distinct from those of Australia. 



The writer has lately received through the courtesy of INIr. J. II. 

 Tole of Auckland, a little known volume, Handbook of the Fishes of 

 New Zealand, published by R. A. Sherrin, at Auckland in 1886. 

 This book is largely a compilation, but an intelligent one. 



In Zool. Anzeiger (XXVIII, 1905), Professor Robert Collett de- 

 scribes a number of fishes from the Azores, one of them, Lampadena 

 chavesi, being new. 



Dr. F. Guitel of llennes publishes (Archiv. Zool. Exper. 1904) 

 comparative descriptions of species of I^epadogaster the beginning of a 

 general anatomical and systematic study of the Gobiesocida?, in which 

 he asks the cooperation of naturalists. 



In the Smiflisoniaii Misrcllaiu-ous ( '..llcri i,.„s ,1',)()7) Dr. Theodore 



Gill gives an , I ,h. , u. i..nu.,i ..I Nnt.uo.ihx Extra-European 

 Cyprinids,' a cont|)aran\c siudv ot dace, minnows, roach, horny- 



In another paper Dr. (.ill oivcs an oiiilmc ol tli.' strange lite-history 

 of toad-fishes, weevers and siarn'a/crs. wnli plates. 



Classifi(af,n» nj I In Vnn \ \ \. ..1 i. lu < \\ 11, 



XXIX, XX\ |M()7 I), Willnni K ( .i. ot ( nlnnii.ii .li , u^m > 

 the orders ot tclcosionioiis li.slics. I Ins is a pccnliarlv w is;" and 



an.nu m. nt <.t ili l>..in fi.la . ni - mtrihk, dehnable and natural 

 gionp. 1)1 (.1 ^,.n U(o^n./>. iliK .k giecs of blood relationship 



extinction ot mt inudi.t. loi.n. Ih diM . in , x< < 11 nt t ..hion 

 the strength ...d d<t.<,> ol tl, rnirli^h in.l \inMi. in ^.1, nu s of 

 a,.Mh<al.on iiul . tin tl... it, m I ,U ii n , < ,.1, other 



than '\u^ ,pp, u 1 li, id , nn<l ihui^^ th \in n. in m ihod is 

 that tlK u IX to map out tlu topo^Maplix ot tin. Naiu.l inoi pli„logi- 

 cal expanse is to assign a nain;> to (>verv conspicuous cluster ot eleva- 



