FAUNiK. 
Pisces. 5 
A. GrUNTHER publishes notes on several species of S. Australian and 
Tasmanian fishes, with descriptions of some that are new ; Ann. N. H. 
(4) xvii. p. 390. 
New Zealand. 
Hutton, F. W. Contributions to the Ichthyology of New Zealand. 
Tr. N. Z. Inst. viii. pp. 209-218. 
All the new species, save one, were recorded last year. 
GOntiier, 1. c.j publishes notes on some New Zealand species, and 
a few that are new. 
America. 
Jordan’s Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern U. S. of 
America (Chicago: 1876, 8vo) contains, pp. 199-316, a systematic key 
or guide to the fishes, exclusive of the marine species, the classification 
followed being that of Gill. 
Part 3 of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries (Wash- 
ington : 1876) contains Report of the Commissioner for the years 
1873-1876, pp. vii.-xlv., and Appendices a-e, pp. 1-758. 
Steindachner, F. Ichthyologische Beitrage (v.). SB. Ak. Wien, 
Ixxiv. pp. 176-202. 
On new or lare fishes from the west coast of the northernmost part of 
North America. 
Gill enumerates the fishes collected by • J. Bransford in the Isthmus 
of Panama ; there are several new species, and representatives of Pla(y- 
pcecilus and Piahucina^ genera not hitherto found in the isthmus. P. Ac. 
Philad. 1876, pp. 335-339. 
/ Steindachner, SB. Ak. Wien, Ixxii. pp. 29-96 (Ichthyologische Bei- 
I trage, iii.), describes a large number of species, chiefly from Lower 
j California and Panama. He states (p. 88) that Magdalena Bay is the 
' northernmost point of the tropical boundary line for fish on the 
western coast of America. It possesses many species which properly 
belong to the neighbourhood of Panama ; and the coast from thence 
northwards to Monterey Bay exhibits a very interesting transition 
from the tropical fish fauna to that of Western America. San Diego 
is the most southern point for Emhiotoca in any considerable numbers 
and for northern species of Atherinichthys \ on the other hand, species 
of Labridce, Serranus, Xenichthys, and Alhula found at San Diego 
unite it to the tropical fauna. 
The same author has described a number of new species of fishes 
of different families from Panama, giving also complete notices of 
many known species ; op. cit. Ixxii. pp. 551-590, pis. i.-vi., viii. & ix. 
figs. 1 & 2, and pi. x. 
’ In Ichthyologische Beitrage (v.), op. cit. Ixxiv. pp. 49-203, pis. i.-xv., 
I he writes: 1. On the fish fauna of Panama, Acapulco, and Mazatlan ; 
pp. 49-73. 2. On new species, Characinidce and Silnridce, from 
