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living in society and dispersing when the necessity 
of multiplying their race obliges them to do se. All 
are agreed that these beings exist at a point in 
the organic kingdom of nature in which there is the 
greatest difficulty in seizing facts which could at 
once determine their position in the animal or vege- 
table scale. Definitions sv easily employed higher 
up the scale are of no use here. Examining the 
zoocarpes we might say we saw “a provisional cre. 
ation waiting to bé organized and then, according 
to the corpuscles which penetrate it or develope 
among it, becoming the origin of two very distinct 
existences, the one animal, and the other purely ve- 
getable.” (See aleze : pseudozoaria : zoocarpes, gloio- 
eladee:) ‘These are the kind of attractions with 
which I would embellish the convalescents’ aqua- 
rium. 
The flight of the several birds that usually course 
about the Port Royal waters, is sufficiently distine- 
tive. ‘They can each be recognised at a distance.— 
The sailing of the gull-tribe; the flight of the ster- 
ning, the ferns and hydrochelidons; the larinez, 
xemas, and the gull proper or larus, is always well 
represented in marine pictures. ‘They scud like 
vessels in a stiff breeze, cutting the wind in a slant, 
just as a skiff does sailing close hauled. The QOs- 
prey glides and hovers: the herons flap leisurely 
their pinions, curving their necks upon their breast 
and putting their frame in the least possible space. 
The pelican flies heavily as if he was always bur- 
thened with aload. The ducks winnow the air 
