268 Miscellaneous. 



coverts white ; centre of the throat and chest of the richest crimson ; 

 upper surface and wings green washed with orange ; along the 

 shoulder a mark of light grey, and a large spot of grey near the tip 

 of each of the tertiaries ; primaries dark slate-grey tipped with 

 orange-brown ; secondaries slate-grey bordered with orange-brown, 

 and with a very narrow edge of yellow along the apical portion of 

 the external web ; under surface of the body greyish green ; under 

 surface of the wings grey ; vent washed with yellow. 



Total length, about 8 inches ; bill, | ; wing, A\ ; tarsi, f . 



Hab. The Solomon Islands. 



Remark. — The only specimen I have ever seen, and which is un- 

 fortunately imperfect, being destitute of tail, was sent to me by Mr. 

 Webster, who had visited the above islands. This beautiful little 

 Pigeon, certainly the most briUiantly coloured of the entire group, 

 has been named in honour of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress 

 of the French. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



NEW LOCALITIES FOR RARE PLANTS AND ZOOPHYTES. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Southlands House, near Chale, Isle of Wight, 

 Feb. 4, 1857. 



Gentlemen, — It may be interesting to some of your readers to 

 know, that Caberea Boryi {vide Busk's Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa, 

 p. 39), found by Miss Cutler on the coast of Devon a few years ago, 

 growing " in minute tufts upon Eschara foliacea,' is frequently to 

 be met with in this part of the Isle of Wight, nestling among the 

 roots of old specimens of Laminaria digitata. The little bay under 

 the village of Niton, terminating at the east in Puckaster Point, is an 

 admirable locality for procuring it, as large quantities of Algae are 

 thrown ashore there after rough weather. One specimen was found 

 last month, on a little shrubby tuft of " Rally menia reniformisy* 

 which at this season is obtained here in fruit. 



Crisia aculeata and fine Notamia Bursaria are also found here ; 

 and Laomedea obliqua may almost be considered abundant. 



If a notice of localities for rare plants and zoophytes is at all 

 acceptable, allow me to mention having found Naccaria B^igghii in 

 Douglas Bay, in August last, in fruit. Sphcei'ococcus coronopifolius 

 is also not uncommonly cast ashore there ; and during a month's 

 stay I found five or six specimens of Callithamnion Borreri, in its 

 most brilliant and beautiful state, — the *' seminudumy' I am told, of 

 Agardh. 



In the year 1852, being on a visit of a few days to the late Dr. 

 Johnston, at Berwick, I found on the shore there three specimens of 

 the rare Rhodymenia ovist at a, one of which was in fruit. This was 



