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On a new species ofThalassidromaGeorge Robert Gray F.L.S. F.Z.S.Published online: 23 Dec 2009.

To cite this article: George Robert Gray F.L.S. F.Z.S. (1855) On a new species ofThalassidroma, Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 2, 16:91, 78-78,DOI: 10.1080/037454809495481

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names are attached in MS. in a very old hand. "Good King H a r r y " occurs for the first time in Gerard, who says it was so called in Cam- bridgeshire (Johnson's edit. 1633, p. 329). Mah~sHenricus seems to have been Zathrcea squamaria.

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To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. Weymouth, May 15, 1855.

GErCTLEM:EZ%~I beg to draw your attention to a fact I have not seen noticed in print. I t is, that'~/¥reis bilineata constructs a tube for its domicile. Its usual habitat is the npper coils of any dead whelk that may have been selected by a Pagurus for its domicile. This Annelid is well known to the fishermen here, and by whom it is much used as a killing bait for whiting. I was not aware of the fact of its constructing a tube for itself until lately, when, on breaking off the top coils, I found that the worm had constructed a tube, with which it had lined its lodgings. The tube is perfectly white, rather strong, and not attached to the whelk shell.

I am, Gentlemen, yours obediently, WILLIAM THOMPSON.

On a New Species of Thalassidroma. By GEORGEE ROB:ERT GRAY, F.L.S. & F.Z.S.

A specimen of a Stormy Petrel, from the north-west coast of Ame- rica, which has lately been kindly presented to the British Museum by Miss Horuby, differs from all those that I am acquainted with.

In form it agrees best with Thalassidroma f~rcata, but the colo- ration differs much in several particulars. Front, cheeks, throat, collar round the hind part of the neck, breast and abdomen pure white ; crown, hind head, a broad band iu front of neck, bend of wing and lesser wing-coverts sooty grey ; upper part of back grey ; lower part of back and tail ashy grey ; greater wing-coverts brownish grey ; tertiaries and quills deep black.

Total length, 8¼"; bill from gape, 10½ "t, from front, 8½m; tail (outer feather), 3~ 'r ; tarsus, 1 ' ; middle toe, 1".

I propose to give this species the appellation of Thalassidroma Hornbyi, after Admiral Hornby, who obtained it during his com- mand on the Pacific station, where he collected many interesting animals for his brother-in-law, the late President of this Society.-- Proe. Zool. 8oe., May 10, 1853.

On the Eggs of Otogyps and Prosthemadera. By H. F. WALT:ER, Esq.

Mr. H. F. Walter exhibited specimens of the eggs of Otogyjos and t)rosthemadera novce seelandiee from his own collection.

The egg of Otogyps was obtained by Herr Ludwig Parreyss of

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