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about 240 miles westward of the Bonin Islands, five Swallows alighted on the rigging in an 
exhausted state and were captured ; these were Hirundo guttiiralis, the eastern form of 
the familiar Hirundo rustica. Several Finches and a thrush-like bird were observed at 
the same time. 
Professor G. 0. Sars, of Christiania, who is preparing a Report on the Scliizopoda, 
Cumacea, and Phyllocarida, gives the following notes on the collections which were placed 
in his hands : — 
The Schizopoda. — “ The collection of Scliizopoda procured during the Challenger 
Expedition is extremely rich and of great interest. The three subdivisions or families 
hitherto established — Lophogastridse, Euphausiidse, and Mysidse — are all represented, and 
the late Dr. v. Willemoes Sulim has, in addition, founded a new subdivision for the 
remarkable genus Eucopia, Dana (or Clicdaraspis , Sulim), also procured during the 
Expedition. 
“Of the Lophogastridse, specimens of the first established species, Lophogaster typicus, 
M. Sars, hitherto only known from the Norwegian coast and the Shetland Isles, have 
been obtained in a widely remote locality, viz., south of the Cape of Good Hope. A 
solitary specimen, representing a new genus, Ceratolepis, was caught north of Australia. 
Exceedingly interesting is the discovery of the remarkable deep-sea Lophogastrid genus 
Gnathophausia, established by the late Dr. v. Willemoes Suhm. Three species have 
been described by that author, one of which, Gnathophausia gigas (see figs. 260, 261), 
attained dimensions truly gigantic for a Schizopod. A closer examination of the material 
has shown that no less than nine different species of this interesting genus are in 
