EEPORTS. 437 



At the October meeting an interesting exhibit was made 

 by Mr. E. Sharp of Haliclystcs Octoradiata — a beautiful 

 little bell-shaped zoophyte, and a connecting link between the 

 free-swimming jelly-fish and the fixed anemones. Among the 

 rare Crustacea a fine specimen of Galathea strigosa was found 

 by Mr. F. Wright at Terres Point. Also several fine speci- 

 mens of Dromia vulgaris have been brought in by fishermen. 

 In the last report I expressed the opinion that probably this 

 peculiar crab lives and breeds in local waters. I think we 

 may now take this as proved. 



Among the Echinodermata is one new to the Sarnian area 

 [Priapuhis cordatus). Among the Molliisca Mr. E. Sharp 

 reports the finding at Bordeaux of a peculiar and rare bivalve 

 with the habit of a univalve, Galeomma Turtoni. 



F. L. Tannee, Sec. Mar. Zool. Sect. 



Report of the Ornithological Section. 



The principal feature to be noted this year in connection 

 with birds, is the remarkably late arrival and departure of 

 most of our summer migrants. The spring was exceptionally 

 wintry ; intense cold prevailed throughout the British Isles 

 during the last week of April, and on the 24th and 25th of 

 that month there were heavy falls of snow in Guei-nsey. The 

 splendid summer that followed was prolonged into the 

 autumnal months, and so the birds remained with us later 

 than usual. 



Several of our summer and winter visitors are becoming 

 noticeably scarcer year by year, owing to the spread of 

 building operations, and the destruction of trees ; the older 

 sportsmen complain that there is but little sport to be had 

 nowadays as compared with twenty or thirty years ago. One 

 man informed me that in the winter of 1880-81 he shot eight 

 woodcocks at St. Martin's and the Forest in one morning. 

 On the other hand some birds are rapidly increasing in 

 numbers, but from a sportsman's point of view they are not 

 worth powder and shot. 



At one of our evening meetings early in the year, the 

 topic selected for discussion was the migration of birds, and 

 those who were present had an opportunity of learning the 

 latest theories and statistics relating to the subject. In 

 presenting my annual budget of bird-notes, I have again to 

 thank Messrs. B. Rowswell, R. P. Spencer, J. S. Hocart, and 

 the Pev. P. H. Tourtel, for kindly handing me a record of 

 observations made by them. 



