Records of Dredging. 5 l .) I 



Length 3<|in.; weight from 75 gr. to 80 gr. Bill three 

 tenths of an inch in length, depressed at the base, narrowed 

 towards the tip. Tarsus six tenths of an inch long, slightly 

 scutellated. Bill black ; tarsi yellowish brown ; base of the 

 bill beset with bristly feathers. Crown of the head covered 

 with silky feathers of a rich orange in the centre, shaded off 

 into a light yellow towards the sides. A stripe of black runs 

 along each side of this crest, and sets it off to great advantage. 

 General colour of the back olive green. Cheeks, breast, and 

 belly dusky white, tinged with green. Quill feathers sepia- 

 coloured, with light yellow margins. Tail sepia-coloured, with 

 olive-green margins ; inner feathers shortest. 



Near Derby \ June 1. 1835. 



[Mentions of a few facts in the habits of the gold-crested 

 wren, or kinglet, are rmide in I. 179., IV. 1 19., VIII. 547-] 



Art. II. Records of the Results of Dredging. No. 2., Including 

 Notices of Species of Patella, of Ruccinum, and of Lima. By 

 Edward Forbes, Esq. 



Adhering to shells in deep water, on the Manx coast, a 

 small species of Patella occurs in considerable abundance, 

 which appears to be undescribed. {fig, 61.) It is allied to the 

 virginea, but differs from that species in its 

 never attaining so large a size, and, more 

 characteristically, in its markings, being of 

 a bluish white colour, with 10 or 12 moni- 

 liform red rays. The bluish hue of the 

 tr^^y shep^ wnen young, is often so intense in the 

 centre of the links as to cause an appearance of blue spots, 

 resembling those of caerulea. Old shells become of a semi- 

 opaque reddish white. These characters I have never found 

 to vary ; and there is little difficulty in distinguishing the 

 shell at sight. («, natural size; b, magnified.) The animal is 

 yellowish white, with moderately long tentacula, and the eyes 

 are at their external base ; the cloak has pink spots on its 

 edge at regular intervals (margin entire?). The species may 

 be characterised as follows : — 



Patella pulchella Forbes. Patella testa ovata, subpellucida, 

 radiis rubris subtessellatis ; apice acuto, submarginali. Longit. 

 ■fo, latit. ^ unciee. 



The P. Clealandz of Sowerby has occurred, though rarely, 

 on the Manx coast. One specimen I found alive, on a stone, 

 at very low water ; and I have several others which were cast 



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