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dredgings were taken a little to the southward, at depths from 100 
to 150 fathoms. Animal life was very abundant, and it was found 
that the general character of the fauna was very similar to that of 
the North Atlantic — many of the species even being identical 
with those on the coasts of Great Britain and Norway. Between 
Prinee Edward’s Island and the Crozets they trawled in 1,375 and 
1600 fathoms, and many new forms, including two stalked crin- 
oids and some deep-sea sponges and sea-urchins, occurred. Off 
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Kerguelen Island, a fine sponge (Rossella) — probably, the Ros- 
sella antarctica — originally dredged by Sir James C. Ross, near 
the ice-barrier, was obtained. At their most southerly station — 
lat. 65° 42’ south, long. 79° 49’ east — the trawl brought up from 
a depth of 1,675 fathoms a considerable number of sponges and 
other deep-sea forms. Dredgings with similar results were made 
in 1,800 and 1,900 fathoms. Again at a depth of 2,600 fathoms 
Holothurians were abundant, with several star-fishes and Actiniæ 
and an “elegant little Brachiopod.” By using the towing net 
from the surface as deep down as 150 fathoms, Mr: Murray, one 
of the party, infers “that the’ bulk of the material of the bottom 
in deep water is in all cases derived from the surface.” 
Sates, 
Tue CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER.—In the account of the chest- - 
nut-sided warbler (Dendroica Pensylvanica) in vol. I of “North — 
American Birds,” Dr. Brewer states that ‘‘it is not known to breed 
farther south than Massachusetts.” On May 19, 1871, I shot 
female of this bird off a nest of four eggs, at White Sulphur 
Springs, West Virginia. This locality is about 2000 feet above © 
the sea and somewhat below lat. 38. The nest was eighteen 
inches above ground in a small thorn bush in a swampy thicke 
With the exception of being slightly smaller, and having the 
chestnut side streak more faintly developed this bird does not 
appreciably differ from specimens I have from Canada. — ARTHUE 
C. Srarx, Hillstead, Torquay, England, Oct. 29, 1874. | 
ublished 
EMBRYOLOGY OF THE Bracniopops.—Kowalevsky has pud™® pe 
a fully illustrated paper on this subject in the ‘* Memoires” of th 
Academy of Science at St. Petersburg. It gives an account x 
the embryology of Argiope and other genera, and is fully com ae 
orative of the studies of Prof. Morse and his opinion that ©" 
Brachiopods are closely allied to the Cheetopod worms. A number 
of interesting sections of the embryo are figured. At one 
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