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cies separated by vast seas, and which marine currents alone could 

 have transported from one continent to another, is so considerable, 

 that the idea of the multiplicity of centres of creation will every day 

 acquire more probability. — Comptes Rendus, 24 Aug. 1857, p. 266. 



Description of a new Norwegian Star-fish. By M. Sars. 

 Astropecten arcticus. 



Sinubus inter brachia rotundatis ; diametro minora ad majorem 

 (in ly pollicari) = l : 2^; scutis marginalibus 25 ; tuberculis conicis 

 brevissimis undique obsitis, superioribus spatio paxillifero quater 

 vel quinquies angustioribus, inferioribus latitudinem superiorum ter 

 superantibus. Color pallide miniatus vel aurantiacus. 



Size a little more than l^ inch. Colour pale minium- or orange- 

 red on the dorsal surface, passing to bright yellow towards the mar- 

 gins of the disk and arms. The paxillae and marginal plates are 

 bright yellow ; the spines of the ventral and adambulacral plates are 

 bright, and the feet the same. Four individuals were taken at 

 Oxfjord, at a depth of 100-150 fathoms, on a muddy bottom. It 

 belongs to the third division of the genus, according to Miiller and 

 Troschel, in which there are tubercles in place of spines on the mar- 

 ginal plates of the back. — Fauna Littoralis NorvegicB, livr. ii. p. 61. 



Description of a new Tanager. By Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 M.A., F.L.S., ETC. 



Euphonia Gouldi. 



(? . Supra olivacea, ceneo induta : pileo usque ad oculos cum front e 

 Jlavis : subtus, gula et cervice fiavescenti-olivaceis, abdomine 

 medialiter castaneo, hoc colore flavo utrinque marginato ; late- 

 ribus olivaceis flavo mixtis : crisso castaneo : rostro et pedibus 

 nigris. 

 ? . Supra mari similis sed dilutior^ fronte et pileo antico rubris : 

 subtus fiavescens, abdomine medio cum crisso dilute castaneis, 

 lateribus flavido-olivaceis. 

 Long, tota 4*1, alse 2*2, caudse 1*0, tarsi 0*7. 

 Hab. In Guatimala et Mexico Meridionali. 



Gould's Euphonia does not sufficiently resemble any other of the 

 known members of the group to render it liable to be confounded 

 with them. It may, I think, be most naturally placed at the head of 

 the section containing Euphonia pectoralisy E. rufiventris and others 

 (which has been denominated Iliolopha by Prince Bonaparte), and 

 will serve to connect them with the yellow-headed species which pre- 

 cede them in my arrangement. I have suspected its existence for 

 some time, but these examples are the first good ones I have seen of 

 it. I have had for several years in my possession a bird which I 

 now find to be an immature individual of this species ; and M. Salle's 

 collection comprised a single specimen not in very good condition, 

 which he obtained in Southern Mexico. I gave a short description 



