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western passage of the river between Cr^doz and Mount Yuache. The 
author describes at length each species, giving the synonymy, elaborate 
measurements, and complete details of the habits, individual and sexual 
variations, parasites, and mode of capture, &c. : a coloured plate, with 
supplementary figures, accompanies each description. 
North Africa. 
Hanoteau & Letourneux in “ La Kabylie” i. p. 161, mention a Salar^ 
Barbus callensis, and Anguilla vulgaris^ as inhabiting the fresh waters of 
Kabylia. Clupea finta and Mugil cephalus enter the rivers to the height 
of 40 kilometers. 
Gervais, on fishes of the Algerian Sahara. C. R. Ixxix. p. 557. 
A. Gunther describes 1 new species of Serranus and 3 of Barbus 
collected by Rein & Fritsch in Morocco. Ann. N. H. (4) xiii. pp. 
230-232. 
Turhestan. 
Kessler, in Nachr. Ges. Mosc. xi. (ser. 5) ; Puteshestvie v Turkestan 
(Zoogeographical results of the explorations of the late A. Fedchenko), 
63 pp. 8 plates, gives an account of the fishes found in the ‘rivers of 
Turkestan, describing and figuring some new species which will be referred 
to below. 
Mesopotamia. 
A. Gunther has published an account of a collection of fishes from 
the Tigris, made by W. H. Colvill. Ann. N. H. (4) xiv. pp. 36-38, 
pis. viii. & ix. 
Madagascar and the Mascarenes. 
“Poissons et Peches,” by P. Bleeker & F. Pollen, forms Part 4 of 
“ Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar,” by F. Pollen & Yan Dam. 
Leyden: 1875 (1874), 4to. 
The section devoted to descriptions of the species consists of 104 pages 
and 21 plates. A list is given of the fish belonging to the district of 
Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Seychelles, amounting to 800 species, 
106 of which were collected in Madagascar, Nossib^, and Reunion. 
East Indies. 
Bleeker has undertaken a revision of the Apogonini, and of the species 
of Ambassis and Parambassis, belonging to this fauna; Yerh. Holl. 
Maatsch. (3) ii. No. 1, pp. 1-104: also of the Indopelagic species of the 
Sgnanceoideif tom. cit. No. 3, 21 pages, 4 plates. 
China. 
A. Gunther’s “Third notice* of fishes collected by Mr. Swinhoe in 
China,” refers to those from Chefoo. 6 new species. Ann. N. H. (4) 
xiii. pp. 154-159. 
