NOTES AND LITERATURE 



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Mr. Regan describes a collection of fishes from Christians Island, 

 six species being new. 



In the same Proceedings, 1909, Mr. Regan gives an interesting 

 account of the changes in coloration in living fishes, as observed 

 in the New York Aquarium. The same subject has been since 

 much more fully treated by Charles H. Townsend, director of 

 the aquarium. 



In the Annals and Magazim of Natural History, 1909, Mr. 

 Regan gives the name Orevtolohus ogilbyi to the species from 



Orectolobus dasgpogoiu Mr. Regan admits that Euerossorhinus. 

 established by him for dasypogon, is not distinct from Orecto- 

 lobus. 



In a publication of the Station at Boulogne-sur-mer, Dr. H. 

 E. Sauvage gives a comparative study of the peritoneum of 

 flounders. 



In the Bulletin de la Societe Beige de Geologic, 1908, Mr. 

 Maurice Lericho discusses new species of fishes from the Oli- 

 gocene of Belgium. 



In the Annates de la Societe Geologique du Nord, Volume 37, 

 1908, at Lille, Mr. Maurice Leriche discusses the fossil sharks 

 of California, with special reference to the papers of Agassiz 



cal with the nearest com-.pnmlm- speeirs of Europe. It is a 

 matter in which certainty is not often possible. Most of the 



