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PISCES. 
those which he regards as new, 23 in number. Tr, Am. Phil. 
Soc. xiv. pp. 461-483, with 8 woodcuts. 
Upper Amazons. Prof. Cope has reported on a collection from 
Pebas. Twenty-twQ species are described as new. P. Am. Phil. 
Soc. 1870, pp. 559-570. 
/ Patagonia. ^ Notes on the Natural History of the Strait 
of Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia, made during the 
i Voyage of H.M.S. ^Nassau,' in the years 1866-69,^ by R. 
lO. Cunningham (Edinb. 1871, 8vo, pp. 517), contain numerous 
: observations on the occurrence of fishes collected by the author 
I on the shores of the southernmost parts of South America. — 
These observations are collected in a separate paper, Notes 
on the Reptiles, Amphibia, Fishes, &c. obtained during tlie 
Voyage of H.M.S. ' Nassau,^ in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 1871, 
pp. 4654.73. 
^ Africa. M. de Brito Capello has commenced a list of the 
species from Madeira, the Azores, and Portuguese possessions in 
Africa, which are contained in the Lisbon Museum. Jorn. Sc. 
Lisb. 1871, pp. 194-202, 280-282. 
Red Sea. Dr. Klunzinger has published the second part of 
his Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meers [see Zool. Record, 
vii. p. 84] in Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1871, pp. 441-688. — A sys- 
tematic index of all the fishes of the Red Sea is added, ibid. 
pp. 1353-1368. 
India. Mr. F. Day has published the following papers : — 
^'Monograph of Indian Cyprinidae,^^ J. A. S.B. 1871, pp. 95-142, 
277-367, with 4 plates. On Hamilton Buchanan^s original 
Drawings of Fish in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal/^ 
P. A. S. B. 1871, pp. 195-209. On the Freshwater Siluroids 
of India and Burrnah,^^ P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 703-721. — Report on 
the Fish and Fisheries of the Fresh Waters of India,’"’ Simla, 1871, 
8vo, pp. 49. The subject is divided under the five following 
heads; — 1. Does a wasteful destruction of freshwater fish exist 
at present in India and Burmah ? 2. The fishermen of India 
and Burmah. 3. The fisheries and how they are worked. 
4. The fish that are eaten. 5. Fish in an economic point of 
view, including remarks on the effects of a fish diet. 
Celebes. Dr. Gunther has described 13 new species from 
collections made by Dr. A. B. Meyer at Menado. P. Z. S. 1871, 
pp. 652 et seqq. 
Polijnesia. Dr. Gunther has described 16 new species from 
collections received from the Godeffroy Museum. P. Z. S. 1871, 
pp. 652 et seqq. 
Australia and Neio Zealand. Mr. Krefft has published a 
pamphlet, ^Australian Vertebrata, Fossil and Recent’ (8vo, 
pp. 96 : place and date of publication ?), containing a nominal 
list of 439 fishes of the coasts and fresh waters of Australia and 
New Zealand. — Dr. G untiier has described 10 ncAv species from 
