274 A FEW SEA-WORMS: 
captivity, separated itself from its appendix of a baby, and 
seemed all the livelier for the loss of a juvenile which had 
been literally in that condition of ‘hanging to its mother’s 
tail,’ which I have heard applied in metaphorical sarcasm to 
small boys anxious to be with their mothers. The young 
one only lived four days.” 
Another tube-dweller is the Pectinaria (Fig. 4, Pectinaria 
hyperborea of Malmgren, and its slightly curved conical 
Fig. 4. tube), which is found 
on our coast: in deep 
water, and its empty 
tube sometimes at low 
water. So far as we 
are aware it does not 
protrude far out of ‘its 
tube, but only exhibits 
a few short tentacles 
and a pair of the most 
brilliant comb-like set 
of golden bristles, from 
twelve to fourteen in 
ich set. It is from 
one to two inches long, 
and its slightly curved 
tube is made up of lit 
tle particles of sand 8 
arranged as to pr 
in and without. 
antly in deep: 
rown from 

resent 
a smooth, almost shining, surface both withi 
We have dredged this species most abund: 
quiet, muddy bays, where it feeds.on fish-offal th 
i southwals 
the fishing vessels. It grows of a smaller size pi arcti¢ 
the 
and is scarcely as common on our shores as in 
seas. re the 
e 
i "ms a 
But the most brilliant and gorgeous sea-w0l en tide 
we 
Nereids. Dig down a few inches into the mud ie? Jata of 
£ nticu 
mark and you will spe edily turn up the Nereis de 
