24 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



There has recently been completed a group representing the 

 remarkable associates of marine life known as the Naples fauna of 

 the Upper Devonian as it lived in the seas of western New York. 

 The assemblage of restorations is worked out with close attention to 

 original structure as far as these can be made out from the study of 

 allied living species and are presented as an underwater scene which 

 has been effectively rendered by Mr Henri Marchand. The species 

 represented in this submarine group are the following: 



Fishes 



Rhadinichthys devonicus Clarke 4 



Cephalopods 



Manticoceras rhynchostoma Clarke 1 



Orthoceras bebryx Hall 1 



Mollusks 



Grammysia elliptica Hall 3 



Starfishes 



Urasterella 1 



Lepidasterella gyalum Clarke 1 



Klasmura mirabilis Ruedemann 1 



Cla.rkeaster perspinosus Ruedemann 1 



Crinoids 



Hallocrinus ornatissimus Hall 1 



Corals 



Plumalina plumaria Hall 1 



Siphonophore 



Paropsonema cryptophya Clarke 2 



Sponges 



Hydnoceras tuberosum Conrad 1 



H. legatum Hall & Clarke 4 



Seaweed 



Thamnocladus 4 



The water fowl of Bonaventure island. 1 With the assistance of 

 the zoology department of the Victoria National Museum at Ottawa, 

 the Director has acquired a series of the water fowl now breeding 

 on the Bonaventure island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, one of the 

 last resorts of these birds on the Atlantic coast. It seemed well to 

 take advantage of the opportunity afforded just at this time by a 

 special study of the habits of these birds being made through the 



1 Since this was written the Provincial Parliament of Quebec has constituted tr e 

 Perce Rock, Bonaventure Island and the Bird Rocks into a single great reserve 

 of waterfowl (March 17, 19 19). 



