206 MR. A. NEWTON ON THE BREEDING [June 24, 
articulation of the second zone, and its coarser sculpture, sufficiently 
distinguish it. 
I have named this species after T. Lombe Taylor, Esq., whose 
fortunate purchase of the types of the Solaria described by the late 
Mr. Hinds, from Sir E. Belcher’s collection, has materially assisted 
me in my monograph of this genus. 
S. soverBit, Hanl. Testa subdiscoidea, fulva et albido-fulvo un- 
datim nebulosa seu variegata: sutura anguste canaliculata. 
Anfractus (pauci ?) filis elevatis obliquis transversim clathrati, 
in cingula 4 crenogranosa, quorum 3 superiora, cum sulcis suis, 
equalia sunt, et ultimum, cum sulco precedente, aliquantum 
est latius, divisi: infra secundum oritur denique cingulum 
alium. Peripheria declivis, haud biangulata, sed cingulis non- 
nullis similibus, minus autem vicinis, sulcisque clathratis in- 
structa, ita ut cingula circiter 13-14 ultimum anfractum ornant. 
Basis plane vel retuse cingula 4 intima (seu ultima) multo re- 
motius clathrata, sulcis latioribus sejuncta ; crene permulte 
cinguli ultimi (omnium latissimi) ultra parietem humilem um- 
bilict modict conspicue eminentes. 
Hab. Littora Tunetana. 
Mus. Brit. 
The sculpture is peculiar. Four whorls alone are developed in 
the described examples. 
9. On THE BreeDING or THE NuTcRACKER (NUCIFRAGA CARY- 
ocaTacTes). By Atrrep Newron, M.A., F.LS., F.Z.S. 
About six months ago (P. Z. S. 1861, pp. 396-7), I expressed a 
hope of being able before long to give the Society some more certain 
information with respect to the breeding of the Nutcracker (Nuc7- 
fraga caryocatactes). In that I hope I have not been altogether 
disappointed. 
The nest and young bird now exhibited (the latter still showing 
traces of its original downy clothing) have been received by me 
within the last few days from my excellent friend Herr Pastor P. W. 
Theobald of Copenhagen, to whom I think the Society will join with 
me in hearty congratulations on his success in obtaining these deci- 
sive facts in regard to the nidification of this mysterious bird, and 
whose zeal in the quest of zoological discovery fully deserves, in my 
opinion, all the praise that can be accorded to it. 
Believing, however, that the Pastor will himself publish fuller 
details of this interesting capture, I will only briefly recount the in- 
formation with which he has supplied me. 
It appears that previously to the summer of 1860, a forester in 
the island of Bornholm had satisfied himself that the Nutcracker 
was in the habit of breeding there annually. He had seen it every 
month in the year, from May to November inclusive ; and this intel- 
ligence being communicated to Herr Theobald, that gentleman made 
