Mr. J. Blackwall on Spiders from Upper Canada. 429 



Tlie specimen just described is " the beautiful new Goat- 

 sucker " of which Mr. Sharpe says he is not aware that I had 

 published anj description*. I can, however, assure him that 

 the description of this fine bird was written more than twelve 

 months ago ; but I think it right to make him aware that I 

 have deferred its publication until the present opportunity. 



My young friend Mr. Sharpe seems equally anxious to be 

 made acquainted with the fact whether I had published on 

 another Madagascar bird, of which he says, I " was inclined 

 to consider it undescribed" — an opinion which Mr. Sharpe him- 

 self once entertained ; but he afterwards kindly informed me 

 that it might be Cossypha imerina of Dr. Hartlaub, though he 

 at the same time pointed out some differences that existed be- 

 tween it and Dr. Hartlaub's description. These differences he 

 still refers to in his paper, and also further states that he 

 " cannot guarantee the absolute correctness of his identifica- 

 tion." From these remarks I am led to infer that it may yet 

 be an unnamed species, as we both formerly considered it ; 

 and, should our conjecture hereafter prove to be right, then I 

 would venture to propose that it should be designated as 



Cossypha Sharper ^ G. R. Gr. 

 Cossypha imerina, Sharpe nee Hartl. in Proc. Zool, Soc. 1871, p. 316, 



where copious descriptions are given of several phases that 

 the bird in question undergoes : these, therefore, need not be 

 repeated here. 



The chief reason for referring to this trivial matter is to 

 satisfy Mr. Sharpe that I had not hitherto published or even 

 written in reference to this bird. 



LIII. — Notice of Spiders captured hy Miss Hunter in Montreal^ 

 Upper Canada^ with Descriptions of Species supposed to he 

 new to Arachnologists. By John Blackwall, F.L.S. 



Tribe Octonoculina. 



Family Lycosid^. 



Genus Lycosa, Latr. 



Lycosa canadensis , n. sp. 



Length of an immature female ttV of an inch ; length of 

 the cephalothorax -rV? breadth tV j breadth of the abdomen -^\ ; 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 317, 



