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Most nearly allied to C. filosum, but of lighter texture and 

 warmer colour. 



2. Notice of a Large Species of Lineus ?, taken on the 

 Coast near Montrose. By Dr. John E. Gray, V.P.Z.S., 

 F.R.S. ETC. 



(Annulosa, PL XLVIII.) 



Mr. Beattie, the Secretary of the Museum of the Natural History 

 Society of Montrose, has kindly presented to the Museum a frag- 

 ment containing the head of a large marine animal which was taken 

 off the coast near Montrose on the 18th July, 1857. 



Mr. Beattie has accompanied the specimen with a figure, and 

 the following note respecting it : — 



"Length varies from 18 to 20 inches. After having been taken 

 a few hours, it divided itself into two pieces of nearly equal length, 

 the posterior of which divided itself into 32 different pieces, all of 

 which seemed to me to move for a whole day ; the head part, con- 

 tinuing to live for two days, moved about, changing its shape con- 

 tinually, and now and then throwing off an additional joint." 



The head portion which is in the British Museum resembles the 

 fragment of a very large Lineus, with a large longitudinal mouth 

 opening into a longitudinal cavity, which extends the whole of its 

 length, having a central, broad, longitudinal rounded ridge extending 

 the whole length of the dorsal surface. The sides of the body are 

 irregularly torn. 



The specimen is in far too imperfect a condition to describe, but 

 I think that it may be provisionally named Lineus Beatticei, after 

 its discoverer ; and I hope that we may be favoured with a more 

 perfect description of the animal made from a living specimen. 



I may observe, that there is a large round hole in the centre of 

 the lower part of the body, about one-fourth the entire length from 

 the mouth, which has been mistaken by some persons for the vent ; 

 but it is evidently an artificial perforation extending entirely through 

 the substance of the body, and piercing both surfaces of the central 

 cavity. 



3. On a Collection of Birds made by Signor Matteo Bot- 

 teri in the vicinity of orizaba in southern mexico. 

 By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.L.S. etc. 



Signor Matteo Botteri, the well-known Dalmatian botanist and 

 traveller, has transmitted to Mr. S. Stevens a considerable collection 

 of birds formed in the vicinity of Orizaba in Southern Mexico, where 

 he has lately been resident in pursuit of his investigations in various 

 branches of natural history. Having recently been engaged in study- 

 ing the fine series of specimens of birds obtained by M. Salle at 



