a roscope, the thoracic eyes shone 
brightly, the light apparently proceeding from the bundles of 
4 rods. Another specimen was treated with aqua ammonia, when 
= the so-called eyes appeared as so many points of light, the rest of 
= the body remaining dark. 
Fe Brachiopods.—L. Joubin, in a somewhat detailed account of the 
_ anatomy of Crania and Discina (Arch. Zool. Expérimentale, 11, 
= IV, 1886) comes to the conclusion that the Brachiopods, though 
= 4pproaching more closely to the Polyzoa than to any other group 
ca, the animal kingdom, are to be regarded as “ a class absolutely - 
distinct and independent.” : 
Reptiles—Ata meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania it 
Was stated that a black snake (Hoplocephalus curtus) four feet 
three inches in length, had been found to contain 109 young. 
r. Morton stated that the greatest number he had previously 
nown to be taken from a similar snake was thirty-two, though 
he had heard of seventy from an allied species. 
Birds — Nature has, in a recent issue, given several examples — ; 
-~ Of male birds caring for the eggs and young. One of these is ie 
be that of a turkey cock which incubated six fowl’s eggs and hatched ` 
three chickens, which he treated with all the care of a hen. He 
~ appears to have 
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te als of two days. The male bird begins to sit before all the r 
: 88S are laid, the eggs laid subsequently being deposited by the, 
beside her mate, 
When the eggs begin to hatch it is necessary to isolate the © 
