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Contributions to Faunae. 
Finmarken. Prof. Esmark (Fork. Vid. Selsk. Cliristiania, 18C9) enu- 
merates 06 species — that is, 13 more than are contained in Malmgren’a list 
(1807). Four are new to the fauna of Norway, viz. Centridermichthys un~ 
cinatusj Li/codes vahlii, Hippoglossus pinguis, and Triglops pingelii — the three 
first having been known from Greenland, and the last from Spitzbergen. 
Modena. Dr. Bonizzi enumerates 26 species of freshwater fishes from 
this province, adding a very complete synonymy from Italian authors. An- 
nual’. Soc. Nat. Modena, iv. 1809, pp. 239-260. 
Portugal. M. Capello has concluded his catalogue of the Fishes of For- . 
tugal contained in the collection of the Lisbon Museum (see Zool. Record, 
iv. p. 166, V. p. 138). Jorn. Acad. Sc. Lisb. vi. 1869, pp. 131-163, & 
vii. 1869, pp. 223-228. The list comprises 243 species altogether. 
Algeria. We noticed in Zool. Record, iii. p. 138, M. P. Gervais’s labours 
on the freshwater fishes of Algiers ; they are reproduced in Zoologie et 
l^al(5ontologie g^n^rales.” Paris, 4to (without date), pp. 201-211. 
Nova Scotia. Dr. Gilpin and the Rev. J. Ambrose have continued their 
observations on the Fishes of this colony (Proc. & Trans. N. Scot. Inst. Nat. 
Sc. ii. 2, 1869) : see Zool. Record, iv. p. 167. 
St. Helena. Dr. Gunther has examined another collection made by Mr. 
Melliss (see Zool. Record, v. p. 138) ; it contained 21 species, raising the 
total number of species collected by that gentleman to 66. Proc. Zool. Soc, 
1869, p. 238. 
Mazatlan. Dr. Steindachner gives a list of 46 species from this locality. 
Wien. Sitzgsber. lx. p. 314. — Prof. Peters describes also some species from 
the same locality. Berlin Monatsber. 1869, p. 709. 
Montevideo. Dr. Steindachner describes ten freshwater fishes, Wien. 
Sitzgsber. lx. pp. 290-301. 
Transbaikalia. Dybowski has published a valuable list of fishes observed 
by him in the Onon and Ingoda rivers ; it comprises 27 species, several of 
which are new and figured. Short as the descriptions are, they are very 
instructive, as species described by Pallas are referred to and characterized. 
Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1869, pp. 946-968. 
Zanzibar. Lieut.-Col. Playfair has added four species to its ichthyological 
faima, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 239. 
Continental India. Surgeon Day has examined the specimens in the Cal- 
cutta Museum, which contains the types of the species described by Blyth. 
lie regards many as synonymous with known species, whilst others appeared 
to him to be undescribed. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 611-627, 648-660, 
611-623 ♦, 
• The author states that he intended to offer remarks on Hamilton Bu- 
chanan’s MS, drawings, but that ho has reserved them, having found that 
objections exist to this course, as it is advanced that the observations should 
bo addressed to the Society to whom those drawings belong.” It may be^ 
questioned whether it is desirable to utilize drawings, the types of which are 
lost, in any other waj but as a help to supplement the insufliciont published 
descriptions ; but objections like those made on behalf of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal could only havOibeen made by men ignorant of the fact that those 
drawings exist in triplicate, one copy being in the British Museum, where 
their free use is allowed. 
