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Dimensions: Wing, 253 mm.; tail-feathers, 188 mm.; exposed 
culmen, 23 mm.; tarsus, 35 mm.; middle toe, with claw, 51 mm. 
Synonymy: Carpophaga tanthina Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 179 
(part). 
HABITAT: Liu Kiu Islands, Japan. 
Type: Tokio Educational Museum, C. TaSaki coll., February 
3, 1887. 
Other specimens of this very distinct species have been ob- 
tained by Mr. H. Pryer’s collectors in the Liu Kiu Islands. I 
take great pleasure in dedicating it to my friend, Mr. P. L. Jouy. 
I wish also to express my indebtedness to the authorities of 
the Tokio Educational Museum for the opportunity to describe 
this interesting novelty.— Leonhard Stejneger. 
Zoological News.—Protozoa.—J. H. Siddall, in his report 
on the Foraminifera of the Liverpool Marine District (supra), 
gives the following account of the method of collecting these 
orms. Foraminifera, he says, “may always be got by care- 
fully scraping the surface of the velvety brownish mud at the 
bottom of pools left by the tide... . The oozy mud may be 
got rid of by washing through a fine muslin net, and the resid- 
uum put into small bottles filled with sea-water. The bottles 
should be kept uncorked in a cool place, out of direct sunlight, 
when the Foraminifera will creep up the sides of the bottle and 
live there for months.” 
Sponces.—Prof. P. Martin Duncan and Dr. G. J. Hinde are 
having an animated discussion in the pages of the Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History over the name to be applied to the 
fossil sponge Hindia of Tennessee. 
Mr C 
VERTEBRATA—FISHES.— Linophryne lucifer, recently described 
in the P. Z. S. of London, by Robert Collett, is a singular, small 
Ceratian with an enormous head and mouth, a single cephalic 
tentacle to represent the spinous dorsal; immensely long and 
slender teeth on the jaws and vomer (also teeth on upper 
s- 
pended from the trunk, and projecting backward beyond the 
ail. There is a long tentacle on the throat. The specimen 
was taken off Madeira. 
__G. A. Boulenger has recently described a Ctenopoma, a Cla- 
rias, and a Mormyrus, from the Lower Congo. All have native 
names; also three new South American Characinoids. 
