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sprays, where several are apparently twisted together like 

 the fibres of rope, and are admirably adapted to hold the 

 mass in a position where it must always be subject, more or 

 less, to violence, from the continued agitation of the waves 

 in these stormy latitudes. The seaweed is not only on 

 the summit, but sundry sprays are interwoven with the 

 mass of eggs, thereby rendering the fabric still more solid 

 and secure. It is truly a wonderful specimen of nature's 

 handiwork : a house built without hands, resting securely 

 on the bosom of the rolling deep." 



From Annals and Magazine of Natural History, for 

 December, 1874, I take the following : — 



" Unrecorded fishes recently added to the collection in 

 the British Museum. From the pen of Dr. Albert 

 Gunther, F.R.S. : 



" Fundulus bermudm. 



" D. 14. A. 12. L. lat. 35. L. transo. 13. 



"The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head rather less than 

 two-sevenths. Snout short, not longer than the eye, with 

 the lower jaw ascending and projecting beyond the upper. 

 The width of the inter-orbital space is contained twice and 

 one-third in the length of the head, the diameter of the 

 eye four times. The origin of the dorsal fin is opposite to 

 the sixteenth scale of the lateral line, and midway between 

 the root of the caudal and the praeopercular margin. The 

 first anal ray corresponds to the fourth or fifth of the 

 dorsal fin. Anal fin much higher than long. Brownish- 

 olive, with numerous dark greenish, indistinct crossbands 

 in the male. A single specimen, three inches long, has 

 been sent by J. Mathew Jones, Esq., F.L.S., from the 



