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Thompson describe a collection of fishes made by Professor J. F. 

 Abbott at Irkutsk in Siberia. Several figures of rare species are 



Tn the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 

 William C. Kendall shows that the trout-perch should be called 

 Percopsis omiscomaycus. The forgotten name of Walbaum 

 (Sahno omiscomaycus) clearly belongs to this curious fish. 



In the "Fortieth Annual Report of the Fisheries of Rhode 

 Island," Dr. Henry C. Tracy gives a list of the fishes known to 

 inhabit that state. Among these are several rare forms from 

 the West Indies. 



In Science, Vol. XXXII, George Wagner discusses the stickle- 

 back of Lake Superior, and shows that Eucalia pygmaa from 

 Lake Superior is not distinct from the ordinary Eucalia incon- 



In the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol. XXIII, 1907, Newton Miller describes the fishes of the 

 Montagua River in Guatemala. The following new species are 

 recorded: Poecilia amates, Thyrina mecki. Cichlasoma spilvrum, 

 Cichlasoma globosum, Cichlasoma manana, Cichlasoma acutum. 



In the Arkiv for Zoologie Band 4, Ribeiro describes some cat- 

 fishes from the Iporanga River, near Sao Paulo in Brazil. 



In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 

 Barton W. Evermann and T. D. A. Cockerell describe three new 

 species of minnows. Richardsonius tlx rmophilus from Warm 

 Springs, Ore. ; Notropis kcndalli from Cross Lake Thoroughfare, 

 Me.; and Notropis universalis from Boulder, Col. 



In the same Proceedings, Mr. Cockerell and Mr. Otis Callaway 

 describe the scales of various minnows of the United States. A 

 subgenus, Coccogenia, is established for Notropis coccogenis. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. VII, 

 1911, Mr. Regan discusses the families of Berycidre and their re- 

 lationship. He proposes to regard thr Bcrwimiorphi as forming 

 a distinct order, and a second order, Xenoberyces, is established 

 for the Stephanoberycida', Melamphaidae and other relatives. 



In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. 

 38, 1910, Professor E. C. Starks and W. F. Thompson review the 

 flounders of the genus Pleuronichthys, with two new species, 

 P. nephelus from San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, and P. ocella- 

 tus from the Gulf of California. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. VII, 

 1911, Mr. Regan discusses the "Anatomy and Classification of 

 the Teleostean Fishes of the Order Iniomi," bringing the various 



