486 MR. E. B. SHAUPE O'H THE 



Mr. Busk in part iii. of the British-Museum ' Catalogue,' pi. xxxiii. 

 If they prove to be Sars's species they are an addition to the 

 British list. 



DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XXITI. 



Fig. I. Scrupocellaria scruposa, obtained from the Firth of Forth, 10th June, 

 ] 876, attached with hooks to the sponge Halichondria panicea, Johnst. 

 s, sponge-spicules ; h, hooks of the root-fibres of 8. scruposa. Mag- 

 nified. 



Fig. 2, Canda reptans. A small portion collected in Cornwall in 1848, and in 

 which I detected the hooks attaching it to a sponge, 14th March, 1877. 

 Also considerably enlarged. 



Fig. 3. A fragment of C. reptans on Flusfra foliacea (/), Firth of Forth, March 

 1877. Hooks absent, but grappling-roots {gr) present. Magnified. 



Fig. 4. A small portion of Eschara Skenei, Tar. tridens, Busk, obtained off Wick 

 (N.B.), 1st March, 1864. Greatly magnified. 



Fig. 5. Eschara stellata, Peach, n. sp. Specimen dredged by Dr. J. Grwyn 

 Jeffreys at Shetland, 1864. Sketch partly from specimen, a drawing 

 of my own, and from an old original one by Mr. Busk. 



Fig. 6. Discopora mcandrina, Peach, n. sp. Obtained from fishermen's lines in 

 Shetland, 1864, from a depth of 80 to 100 fathoms. The examples 

 {dm) of this species shown in the specimen are attached to a piece of 

 dead coral, and are enlarged about 3 times nat. size. 



Fig. 7. A highly magnified profile view of some of the cells of B. meandrina, 

 showing the elongated beak-like mucro. 



Fig. 8. A view from above of a chain of the open-mouthed cells of the foregoing 

 specimen, also much enlarged. 



Contributions to the Ornithology of J^ew Guinea. By E. 

 BowDLEE Shaepe, F.L.S. &c. — Part. IV. On the Collec- 

 tion of Birds brought by Mr. Octavius C. Stone from South- 

 eastern New Guinea. 



[Read June 21, 1877.] 



The collection which Mr. Stone brought with him from New Guinea 

 is probably one of the largest that has yet been made in the southern 

 part of that great island ; but, as in the case of the late Dr. James's 

 consignments, the novelties found in it are very few in number ; 

 and it becomes more and more evident that South-eastern New 

 Guinea cannot compare with the northern portion of the island 

 as regards the richness of its avifauna. 



Mr. Stone informs me that the collection now about to be de- 

 scribed was formed by Messrs. Broadbent and Petterd, two well- 

 known and experienced naturalists, and it is to this circumstance 

 that the excellent preservation of the skins is due ; but one misses 



