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have taken into consideration, it would be as well to say that this 

 nest is not in a flourishing condition, and when this was written 

 seemed about to fail altogether. — .Robert Morris (Uckfield, Sussex). 



ASTEEOIDEA. 

 Growth and Regeneration in Solaster papposus. — Growth : On 

 May 19th, 1915, a Sun-Star (Solaster papposus), 40 mm. in diameter, 

 was placed in an aquarium, in which it lived for 375 days, and when 

 the animal died it had attained a diameter of 90 mm. The average 

 rate of growth of the Sun-Star was therefore 1 mm. in every seven 

 and a half days. The Sun-Star was fed on dead and living Asterias 

 rubens, mussel, shrimp, and fish. Regeneration : The Sun-Star had 

 been in the aquarium for seventy-nine days when a piece, 8 mm. in 

 length, of one of its rays was removed in order that its regeneration 

 might be observed. The injured ray quickly healed, developed a new 

 terminal " eye-spot," and continued to add to its length. Its rate of 

 growth, however, was only equivalent to that of the other rays, and 

 consequently it was still about 8 mm. shorter than the others when 

 the animal died. — H. N. Milligan. 



Correction. — In the ' Zoologist ' for November, 1916, p. 434, I 

 mentioned the occurrence of a white Curlew. I did not see the 

 bird, but later ascertained from Williams, Dublin, by whom it was 

 set up, that it was a pure white Whimbrel, shot in May, 1915. — 

 Eobert E. Euttledge (Bloomfield, Hollymouth, Co. Mayo). 



NOTICES OE NEW BOOKS. 



British Birds. By A. Thorburn. Vol. IV. London : Longmans, 

 Green & Co. £1 lis. M. 

 The last volume of Mr. Thorburn' s admirable work completes 

 the crescendo of the series ; dealing as it does mainly with sea and 

 shore birds, the opportunities for natural grouping are of the best, 

 and the rendering of attitudes, etc., are more uniformly excellent 

 than in the other volumes. We think that all of Mr. Thorburn's 

 plates, mounted as pictures, and hung round the walls, would be 

 infinitely better fittings for a museum than stuffed specimens, the 

 exhibition of which only encourages the killing of rare birds ; skins 

 could always be kept in cabinets for reference by students. Some 

 mistakes in spelling are all we note for comment in the letterpress — 

 " Wooley" for "Wolley" (p. 3) and "Glaucus" for "Glaucous " (p. 69). 



