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Miscellanea. 



Further Note on the Fossil Arachnid from Craiv crook. — 

 It now appears that the arachnid described by me (present 

 volume, p. 510) as Anthracosiro latipes is identical with the 

 previously described A. ivoodwardi, Pocock. As I pointed 

 out (p. 521), it agreed reasonably well with that species in all 

 but the structure of the legs, and Dr. Bather has since 

 discovered that the original specimens of A. woodtvardi agree 

 with my specimen in this respect also. The matter is thus 

 referred to by Mr. R. I. Pocock in his " Monograph of 

 the Terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain " 

 (Palaeontographical Society, vol. Ixiv., 1911, p. 71): 



In 1909 Mr. E. L. Gill described, under the name A. latipes, a. 

 species based upon a specimen from Crawcrook, near Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, which differed apparently from the type oiA. 'woodwardi 

 in having the segments of the legs deep and strongly compressed 

 and crested. But by cutting away the matrix imbedding the 

 limbs of examples of A. ivoodivardi in the British Museum, Dr. 

 F. A. Bather has shown that the appendages are constructed as 

 in the type of A. latipes. Since Dr. Bather drew my attention 

 to this fact I have been able, through the kindness of Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, to examine a specimen from Sparth, near Rochdale, 

 belonging to Mr. W. A. Parker, which resembles those from 

 Coseley and Crawcrook in the structure of the legs and in other 

 particulars. Although Mr. Gill was perfectly justified on the 

 evidence in describing his specimen as the representative of a new 

 species, I think Dr. Bather is right in his belief that latipes must 

 be regarded as a synomym of woodzvardi. 



E. Leonard Gill. 



The Roseate Tern on the Fame Islands. — John Hancock 

 in his " Catalogue of the Birds of Northumberland and 

 Durham," published in 1873, writes of the Roseate Tern — 

 "a few pairs breed annually on the Fame Islands." Since 

 that date, in spite of the protection afforded it, the Roseate 

 Tern has not increased as a breeding species. 



On June 12th, 1909, I saw a single bird on the Knoxes, 

 and watched it settle on its one egg. The keeper afterwards 

 found another clutcli of two eggs ngt ffti" off. He informs me 



