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p. 1) has published some general notes on Japanese fishes, adding a list of 
those of which he has determined the Japanese names. 
Nova Scotia. The food-fishes of Nova Scotia are worked out in a very able 
manner by Dr. Gilpin and the Rev. J. Ambrose, in Proc. & Trans, N. Scot. 
Instit. Nat, Sc. Halifax. The former has continued the paper which we 
mentioned in Zool. Record, iii. p. 138, in vol. ii. of that Journal, part 1. 
pp. 101-111, where he treats of the fishes of the Gadoid family. The latter 
gentleman has taken up the more practical side of this fish-fauna, and con- 
fines himself to the fishes of St. Margaret’s Bay, ibid. i. part 4. pp. 83-43 ; 
and ii. part 1. pp. 67-76. 
United States. A most valuable addition to our knowledge of North- 
American ichthyology has been furnished by Mr. E. D. Cope, who has de- 
scribed the Cyprinoids of Pennsylvania in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. pp. 351- 
399. They are 28 in number, and the more important forms are figured. 
All will be referred to subsequently. The author has also added a supple- 
mentary synopsis of the Esoces of Middle North America, pp. 407-410. 
Barhadoes. Dr. Steindachner has published notes on 12 species, which 
will be mentioned subsequently. Sitzgsbor. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ivi. p. 347. 
Cuba. Prof. Poey gives a list of the genera to which he refers the species 
of Cuban Fishes, adopting as much as possible the distinctions proposed by 
Mr. Gill. The total number of species is 685, of which 122 are of a dubious 
character. Repert. Fis.-nat. de Cuba, ii. 1867, pp. 205-216. 
Minas Geraes. Prof. Reinhardt, in the French resume of his paper on 
three new Characines (see Zoolog. Record, iii. p. 134) in R^s. Bull. Soc. Dan. 
Sc. 1866, adds some general remarks on the fish-fauna of the Rio S. Fran- 
cisco, and more especially of the Rio das Velhas. lie says that from this 
immense system of rivers only 71 species are known, and therefore that, 
although many more may be discovered, this part of the Amazonian system 
must be regarded as very poor in species when compared with other tribu- 
taries or the main stream itself, Mr. Wallace having calculated the number 
of fishes of the Rio Negro at 600, and Prof. Agassiz those of the Amazon at 
2000 at least. He states that at present 384 species are known from Brazil 
generally. Singular is the absence of Chromides in the San Francisco. 
River La Plata. Dr. Steindachner has determined some fishes as Corvina 
gillii, sp. n. ?, Atherinichthys honariensis, Pimelodus macvlatus, Xiphoramphus 
oligolepis, sp. n., and Engraulis dentex. Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ivi. 
pp. 336-342. 
Chili. Dr. Philippi’s remarks on Chilian freshwater fishes (see Zool. 
Record, iii. p. 139) are translated in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, xix. 
pp. 427-435. 
Samoa Islands. Messrs. Kner & Steindachner describe several marine fish 
from this little-known group of islands. Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1867 
(1866), liv. p. 356. 
Australia. Dr. Gunther has published notes on 78 species of fishes re- 
ceived by the British Museum in the course of the last years from various 
parts of Australia. Fourteen were undescribed, and will be referred to sub- 
sequently. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, xx. pp. 57-67. 
Cape York. Dr. Steindachner has published descriptions of, or notes on, 
21 species collected at Cape York. Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1867, Ivi. 
