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very cuticle, which is easily separated by gentle 

 friction, and adheres to the fingers ; it is not of 

 that high polish observed in some of the scaly fishes, 

 and is a little wrinkled ; there are also several slight 

 longitudinal depressions on the sides, that give a 

 striped appearance in some points of view. In 

 proportion to its length, the Ziphotheca tttradens 

 is perhaps the most compressed species of fish 

 hitherto known, the Lcptocephala Morisii except- 

 ed. 



How are we to account for this very young spe- 

 cimen being found in our seas, unless the spawn 

 had been deposited on our coast ? and if, as we 

 may now conclude, this fish actually inhabits our 

 seas, it is curious that it should never before have 

 been discovered. 



Fasciola trachea, p. 194. et seq. 



Page 194. bottom, read, " This disease is pro- 

 u duced by a species of fasciola lodging within 

 ** the trachea, frequently extending from the la- 

 " rynx to the bronchi, or divarication of the wind- 

 " pipe, but never that I have observed in the 

 "lungs." 



I have this summer (18 10), for the first time, 

 had my young turkeys slightly affected with a ver- 

 micular disease, resembling that observed in the 

 common fowl, but that it never arrived at that 

 critical crisis gaping, from which few birds re- 

 cover, and was only attended with a cough, or 



