CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. 



,i"i>i KTii si:kiks.] 



Nr.Miii:i; xuii. 



I'age 



I. A Description of two new C'<ilcisj>oti(/i(r, to wliirli is added 

 r«»iitiniiation of Pri)f. James-Clark's Discovery of tlie True Komi of 

 the .Spoii^re-cell (Animal), and an Account of the Polype-like Pore- 

 area of Clioua coralliiioide-f contrasted with Prof. V,. lliickel's View 

 oil the Ivelatiouship of the Sponges to the Corals. By II. J. Carter, 

 F.R.S. &c. (Plates I. & 11.) 1 



II. Notes on Svlviads. Bv the Kev. II. B. Trlstram, LL.D., 

 F.R.S \ ". 28 



ill. Notes on New-Zealand Eared Seals. By Dr. Hector, 

 KK.S. &c ' 2!) 



IV. On the Agamic lleproduction of a Species of C/iirunoinus, 

 and its Development from the Unfecundated Egg. By Oscar von 

 Grimm. (Plate III.) lU 



V. Contributions to the Fauna of the Upper Tertiaries. No. I. 

 The " Mud-deposit " at Selsey, Sussex. By Alfred I?eli 4.'3 



VI. On the American Eider Duck. By R. B. Shahpe, F.I..S. &c., 

 librarian to the Zoological Society of Jjondon 51 



VII. On the Vermes collected by M. von Ileuglin in the Sea of 

 Spitsbergen. By Prof. Ehlers n:) 



VIII. On a new Species of Iluinining-bird belonging to the 

 Genus Spathiira. By J. Gould, F.R.S 01 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 63 



On a new Species of Arr/m Pheasant, by T. W. Wood, Esq. ; Notes 

 on Podocnemis tmifilis, by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. ; Note on 

 Testudo clideiisix, by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. ; Note on Dac- 

 tylopora, by Dr. C. W. Giimbel ; Pala Wax ; Chinese Freshwater 

 Crabs and Hairy Tortoises ; Death of E. Claparede 67 — 72 



NUMBER XLIV. 



IX. Supplement to a " Catalogue of the Zoophytes of South 

 Devon and South Cornwall," with Descriptions of new Species. By 

 the Rev. Tuomas Hincks, B.A. (Plates V. & VI.) 73 



