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has seen a Globiceps with ten ribs, and another with eleven; a Narwhale 
with tits thirteen or fourteen ribs. As to the number of vertebra, it 
is true that they do not vary with age, but they vary in number in the 
same species. y Balenoptera rostrata Fabr., so remarkable for its 
forty-eight vertebre, sometimes has forty-nine, and he has seen at Ber- 
gen, a skeleton of a male and of a female, both from the coast of N arway, 
of which one had only forty-five vertebræ, and the other forty-nine. Mr. 
Flower has counted fifty, and Lacépède has mentioned forty-six as occur- 
ring in the same species. — Cosmos 
EGGS OF YAMA MAI SILK-woRM FOR SALE.—I have received from 
England, on sale, a number of eggs of Attacus Yama mai, which I am now 
ready to deliver. The price of Yama mai eggs is ten for 30 cents, or 
thirty-five for $1. Picked eggs direct from Japan.— W. V. ANDREWS, 
136 Charlton street, New York. 
E OF LIVING FISH FROM SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR TO 
EuRoPE.— Mr. Moore has succeeded in importing into Liverpool from 
the itive: Plata, the first living fish (a fresh-water Aa that has 
been received from the south of the Equator. Dr. E. right has also 
brought to Paris living specimens of the only fresh-water Cyprinoid of 
the Secheylles iiia Scientific Opinion, Decem 
DEEP SEA DREDGING. — Dr. E. P. Wright has sree in 480 fathoms, 
off the coast of Portugal, living specimens of the Glass Sponge (Hyalo- 
nema Lusitanicum). Until first discovered by Prof. Bocaga, of Lisbon, it 
had only been known from Japan. 
At this great depth, also, lives a shark (Centroscymnus celolepis Bocage 
Cap.), a small fish (Chiasmodon niger Johnson), and an Isis-like coral 
(Keratoisis Grayii Wright).— Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 
December, 1868 
MarsvupiaL Docs. — Of all mammals there is perhaps not one existing 
which is so truly teres so deeply significant of the history of the 
development and geographical distribution of mammals, as the marsupial 
dog. There are two Tasmanian species of this genus, Thylacinus, one 
of which is called the greyhound, and e"; other the bull-dog tiger.— 
Quarterly Journal of Science, January, 18 
THE BELTED KINGFISHER AGAIN.—I notice in the CRI NIIS so many 
conflicting statements relative to the nesting of the Belted Kingfisher, 
reeding 
of ell known bird. In Southern Illinoi is resi- 
dent, and usually begins incubation a the middle of April. I have 
f numerous nests, all similarly located, viz., in the of som 
Stream, or ravine, frequently far from any stream affording - a supply 
of food. On one occasion I found its excavation in the cut of a rail- 
road, at least a mile from the river. t excavations that I xd found 
varied in length from three to as much as nine feet, but more generally 
