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the body when a new spot is wanted for the tail to 
entwine afresh. The eyes move independently af 
each other, as in the chameleon: this, with the bril- 
liant changeable irredescence about the head, and 
its blue bands, forcibly remind the cbserver of that 
animal” (Yarrel’s. Fishes, vol. ii. page 454.) AN 
this diversity of bodily accommodation the hippo- 
campuses efiect by the flexibility ‘and pliancy of the 
vertebral column, the fins being partly obliterated 
and partly rudimentary, and the tail without any 
radial termination. It seems to have a sensitive 
power of adaptation that reminds one of the pre 
hensile tail of the Ateles monkey. 
A person’s attention is sure to be arrested by the 
sea horse’s eyes. They are low in the head; but 
their goiden twinkle, the iris being resplendent yel- 
low, and their place in the midst of what seems a 
horse’s head in harness will be remarked ; otherwise 
amid their sameness of hue, their umber coloured 
lines and depressions, they would hardly excite 
notice. On locking at both eyes attentively as they 
twinkle their independent movement will be visible. 
Our hippocampuses have not the brillianey of the 
Huropean species. ‘They have no variable tint ; no 
blue dispersed over the head, body, or tail—our 
specimens are longirostris, if such a distinctive name 
is acknowledged by naturalists. I donot otherwise 
know our species. 
Every body recollects the story of the middies, — 
the new-comer, and the old stager, and the pleasant 
absurdity about the Port Royal goats, and the 
imitation bundle of grass. ‘Fhe goats are nat 
