t 
e = description of the Lysianassa Magellanica, from Spitz- 
at the Nase of Good Hope, though not in the intermediate tropical re 
The a 
and also quotes as follows from Prof. Fries roeg the plants of © 
the: W 
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dent species (the Yellow Bird), and only two (the Yellow 
Bird and Tree Sparrow), that can be counted as regularly 
common in winter. The two families of raptorial birds 
have each five or six resident species, but of the total of 
nine species furnished. by each, all, as already observed, 
are rather rare species. 
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ON THE LYSIANASSA MAGELLANICA, AND ON THE > gmp OF THE == 
SUBORDER AMPHIPODA AND SUBFAMILY LYSIANASSINA FOUND ON THE 
ene OF SWEDEN A a Norway. By Prof. Wi illiam iiilators g. pp. 38, 
i lates. Upsala, 1865. 4to. 
Ki L nis, bi Mastrted paper, which is written in our own language, 
ced to a very remarkable exception to the usual law 
oe the. distribution of animals. A species, one of the 
rn, by D'Orbigny, reappears, upon the authority of Prof. 
Fries, near Spitzbergen, ‘on the bank by Beering Island.” The spe- 
imens from the two localities were not actually compared, but a 
he te 
rgen, were found to agree perfectly with Milne Edwards’ type-speci- 
men Solisetsa ty D'Orbigny. Sceptics may require the specimens to 
be Placed side by side, before accepting the conclusions of even such i 
nt authorities as those named aboye. Other species of animals 
are aaa to be common to both poles. Three species of shells, ‘‘ Sax- 
icava arctica, Venus pullastra, and Pecten pusio,” and a Crustacean, 
are said by the author to be “found both on our northern coasts, and — 
uthor enumerates several genera of interpolar shells, — 
s: 
oker enumerates Erigeron alpinus, Preeti ue alpinum and Trisetum 
tum, but. AS is probable that on closer e ation these will be found to be 
species, both 
Are and Anart res mi not. pare elsewhere, is afforded by the beautiful i 
ily easily distinguished species Species of moss, Usnea melarantha, which is oo ae 
