Pisces 1 
PISCES. 
BY 
G. A. Boulenger. 
GENERAL. 
GOntuer, A. 0. L. G. Handbuch der Ichthyologie. Ueborsetzt von 
G. von Hayek. Vienna : 1886, 8vo, 527 pp., 363 figs. 
Dollo, L. La vie au sein des raers, et les Poissons abyssaux. Rev. 
Quest, sci. xx. 
Fishes, pp. 181-192. A review of the classification. 
Ryder, J. A. On the Value of the Fin-Rays, and their Characteristics 
of Development in the Classification of the Fishes, together witli 
Remarks on the Theory of Degeneration. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 
pp. 71-82. 
. On the Origin of Heterocercy, and the Evolution of the Fins and 
Fin-Rays of Fishes. Rep. U. S. Fish Comm, xii, pp. 981-1085, 
pis. i-xi. 
Stirling, W. On Red and Pale Muscles in Fishes. Rep. Fish. -Board 
Scotl. 1885, pp. 166-171, pis. iii-v. 
F. Hilgendorf remarks on the so-called “compound teeth'” of Fishes, 
which term the author considers non-characteristic and misleading ; SB. 
nat. Fr. 1886, pp. 87-94. 
Steiner, J. Ueber das Centralnervensystem des Haifisches und des 
Amphioxus lanceolatus, und fiber die halbcirkelformigen Canale des 
Haifisches. SB. Ak. Berlin, 1886, pp. 495-499. 
Also further remarks, pp. 542 & 543. 
McWilliam, J. A. On the Striated Muscles in the Gills of Fishes. 
Rep. Brit. Ass. 1885, pp. 1077 & 1078. 
Albrecht, P. Sur la non-homologie des Poumons des Vertebres pul- 
monis avec la vessie natatoire des Poissons. Paris & Brussels : 1886, 
8vo, 44 pp., figs. 
The author denies the homology of the lungs aud swim-bladder. The 
swim-bladder 6f Polypterus is regarded as a true lung, while that of 
