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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
f the Herring, of its geographical distribution arid periodical visits 
■ in the different parts of the northern hemisphere. A second 
part is devoted to the different modes of fishing and curing, and 
, a third to the chronological history of the Herring-fishery. 
The Fisherman^s Magazine and Review. Edited by Ch. Pennell, 
London : Chapman and Hall. 8vo. 
’ This Journal has entered the second year of its existence, 
* being regularly issued in monthly parts ; each part consists of 
about four sheets and one coloured plate. It has devoted itself 
chiefly to fishery-legislation, pisciculture, practieal fishing, 
/ popular descriptions of fishes, reviews of fishing-books, &c. 
The number of species of Fishes known is more than 8000, 
according to Van der Hoeven, Philos. Zool. p. 330, nearly 
equally divided between fresh- and salt-water (p. 359) . But in 
the European fauna the ratio between freshwater and marine 
species is as 1:3. The Acanthopterygians would form more 
than one-half of the total number, the Malacopterygians nearly 
one-third, the Desmiobranchians Plectognaths 
Dipnoi. 
Lepidosiren annectens. Prof. Krauss makes some remarks on a living spe- 
cimen y it fed on Gammari and Dytisci, but would not touch fish. Dr. v. 
Klein adds his observations on the anatomy, and especially on the skeleton 
of the same specimen. Wiirtemb. ntrwiss. Jahresh. 1864, pp. 126-144. 
PeRCIDtE. 
jicerina rossica (0. & V.). Prof. Kner has received specimens from the 
Dnjester, which he determines as this species. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges, 1864, 
p. 75. Dr. Steindachner (ibid. p. 231) states that this species is, without 
the least doubt, a variation of colour of A. sehrcetzer. Whatever those spe- 
cimens may be, A. rossica (C. & V.) cannot be considered synonymous 
with A. sehrcetzer, unless it can be shown, by* an examination of the ty- 
pical specimens of A. rossica, that Cuvier’s statement of 65 scales in the 
lateral line is erroneous. 
Plectroperca berendtii, Peters, Monatsber. Acad. Wiss. Berl. 1864, p. 121, 
from Japan [is identical with Siniperca chuatsi, Basil. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. 
Mosc. 1855, X. p. 218.] 
Etheostoma peltatum (Stauffer), sp. n.. Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 
1864, p. 232, from the Conestoga, Pennsylvania. 
^ Poecilichthys mesceus, sp. n.. Cope, 1. c., from the Platte River, Nebraska. 
^Hololepis erochrous, sp. n., Cope, 1. c., from streams near Philadelphia. 
/ Centropomus medius, sp. n., and 0. nigrescens, sp. n., Gunther, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1864, p. 144, both from Chiapara ; Centropomus brevis, sp. n., Gunther, 
1. c. p. 146, from Tropical America ; Centropomus affinis, sp. n., Steindachner, 
Sitzgsber. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 1864, xlix. p. 200. tuf. 1. fig. 1, from Rio Janeiro. 
