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Rh 2. Dekay, "Zoology of New York." Part IV. Fishes. (New York, 1842, 4to.)

3. "Reports of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries." (5 vols. Washingt. 1873-79, 8vo. In progress. Contains most valuable information.)

Besides these works, numerous descriptions of North American freshwater fishes have been published in the Reports of the various U. S. Government expeditions, and in North American scientific journals, by Storer, Baird, Girard, W. O. Ayres, Cope, Jordan, Brown, Goode, etc.; but a good general, and especially critical, account of the fishes of the United States is still a desideratum.

1. "Fauna Japonica," Poissons par H. Schlegel. (Lugd. Bat. 1850, fol.)

1. E. Rüppell, "Atlas zu der Reise im Nördlichen Afrika." (Frankf. 1828, fol.)

2. E. Rüppell, "Neue Wirbelthiere. Fische." (Frankf. 1837, fol.)

These two works form the standard works for the student of the Fishes of the Red Sea, and are distinguished by a rare conscientiousness and faithfulness of the descriptions and figures; so that there is no other part of the tropical seas, with the fishes of which we are so intimately acquainted, as with those of the Red Sea. But these works have a still wider range of usefulness, in as much as only a small proportion of the fishes is limited to that area, the majority being distributed over the Indian Ocean into Polynesia. Rüppell's works were supplemented by the two first of the following works:—

3. R. L. Playfair and A. Günther, "The Fishes of Zanzibar." (Lond. 1866, 4to); and