Observations on British Zoophytes. 59 



but the legs were slender, and, as in all the other instances, 

 wanted the spurs of the male. This bird, however, had the 

 peculiarity of its ovaries being perfectly healthy, showing as 

 they did numerous ova ; the mass developed were as large as 

 barley, and a few nearly the size of peas. The other viscera 

 appeared healthy. The bird belonged to the Bohemian or 

 light-coloured variety of the pheasant. It would be of some 

 interest, for the sake of comparison, that the period of the year 

 should be stated when birds of this kind are examined ; this 

 one, from Peeblesshire (owing to the peculiarity of its plumage), 

 was shot in the beginning of April. A very fine specimen of 

 the true Phasianus torquatus, Tern., was also exhibited ; it is 

 the Chinese original, with the Phasianus colchicus, of our 

 common ring-necked varieties, and is seldom seen in so pure 

 and distinctive a state of plumage. The bird was the property 

 of Mr W. H. May, Muirkirk, in which neighbourhood I be- 

 lieve it was killed. 



Captain Orde stated he had examined other specimens of 

 these so-called mule-birds ; in one he found the ovaries en- 

 larged by a tumour or abscess, — another diseased state. 



IV. Observations on British Zoophytes. (1.) Coryne implexa (Alder). 

 (2.) Coryne (margarica, mihi) implexa (Alder). (3.) Bimeria vestita 

 (4.) Garveia nutans. By T. Strethill Wright, M.D., &c. 



Descriptions of Plates. 

 Plate III. 



Pig. 4. Bimeria vestita ; a, single tentacle, the clothed portion studded with 

 parasitic Algae. 



5. Garveia nutans. 



6. Coryne implexa. 7. Thread-cells of do. 



Plate IV. 



Fig. 1. Goodsirea mirabilis. 2. Thread-cells of do. 



3. Marginal tuhercle, with its two tentacles. 



4. Young of Cydippe. 



5. Eudendrium arbuscula, stalked cluster of double spermatic sacs. 



6. Section of double spermatic sac — a, tubercle containing, c, barbed 



thread-cells. 



7. Psuckastes glacialis. 



1. Coryne implexa (Alder). 

 Under the title of Tubularia implexa, my friend Mr Alder 

 has described a zoophyte discovered by Mr R. Howse in 40 



