78 Miscellaneous. 



names are attached in MS. in a very old hand. " Good King Harry " 

 occurs for the first time in Gerard, who says it was so called in Cam- 

 bridgeshire (Johnson's edit. 1633, p. 329). Mains Henricus seems 

 to have been Lathrcea squamaria. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



NEREIS BILINEATA. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Weymouth, May 15, 1855. 

 Gentlemen, — I beg to draw your attention to a fact I have not 

 seen noticed in print. It is, that Nereis bilineata constructs a tube 

 for its domicile. Its usual habitat is the upper 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 George Robert 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 Hornby, differs from all those that I am acquainted with. 



In form it agrees best with Thalassidroma furcata, 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 in 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, 8^" ; bill from gape, 10^'", from front, 8^'" ; tail 

 (outer feather), 3|" ; 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. — 

 Proc. Zool. Soc., May 10, 1853. 



Oti the Eggs of Otogyps and Prosthemadera. 

 By H. F. Walter, Esq. 



Mr. H. F. Walter exhibited specimens of the eggs of Otogyps and 

 Prosthemadera novce seelandice from his own collection. 



The egg of Otogyps was obtained by Herr Ludwig Parreyss of 



