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Bibliographical Notices. 
above, and slightly paler with shining tips beneath, the basal 
four fifths of the hairs on both upper and lower surfaces are 
bluish with a greyish tinge. The ears are more thickly 
clothed with short hairs than usual in specimens of this genus, 
and the same remark applies to the tail, which is well covered 
with coarse short hairs, which lengthen and form a short 
pencil at the extremity, interspersed through basal two 
thirds are long fine hairs ; the feet are well covered with 
short hairs ; the hairs of the tail are dark brown above and 
slightly paler beneath ; on the feet similar to those on the 
upper surface of the tail. 
The skull closely resembles that of 0. fumigata in size, but 
differs in the greater elevation of the premaxillary bones (see 
c Monograph of the Insectivora,’ pt. iii. fasc. 1, pi. xxviii. 
fig. 9) ; the teeth differ from those of that species in some 
peculiarities of form and implantation, better understood by 
comparing op. cit . pi. xxviii. fig. 9, with fig. 8, than from 
any description ; the anterior cusp of the anterior incisor is 
conspicuously shorter than in G. fumigata. 
Length (of an adult female specimen preserved in alcohol) : 
head and body 60 millim., tail 48, ear 7|, elbow to end of 
middle digit (without claw) 18|, tnanus 8, pes 13|, length of 
skull between perpendiculars 20, occipital crest to end of 
premaxilla 17, greatest width of skull 9, length of upper 
tooth-row 8. 
liab. Transvaal. Type no. 6200, preserved in the collec- 
tion of the Zoological Museum at Berlin. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
A Treatise on the Common Sole (Solea vulgaris), considered both as an 
Organism and as a Commodity . By J. T. Cuxxingham, M.A. &c. 
I x requesting and obtaining the liberal aid of Government and 
public corporations, as well as that of private individuals throughout 
Britain, the founders of the Biological Laboratory at Plymouth entailed 
a certain amount of responsibility — more especially with regard to the 
first-mentioned ; and this work is an earnest of that responsibility. 
The author of the treatise came to his task with experience gained 
at the Granton Laboratory and the rich grounds in and off the 
Eorth, and this experience crops up here and there in the w r ork, 
and adds to the interest as well as to the value of the observations. 
The work consists of a more or less scientific study of the common 
sole and an account of the present condition of the sole-fishery, 
together with the possible practical application of the former to the 
purpose of maintaining or increasing the supply of soles available 
for the market. 
