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but the legs were slender, ami, 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 line specimen of 
the ivViQ Phasianus torqiiatii^, Tem., was also exhibited: it is 
the Chinese original, with the Fhasianiis 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 ) Corinic iniphwa (Alder). 
(2.) Coryne (margarica, mihi) implc:ca (Alder). (3.) BiiUtria vcstlta 
(4.) Garveia nutans. By T. Strethill Wright, M.D., &c. 
Descriptions of Flates. 
Plate III. 
Pig. 4. Bimeria vestita ; a, single tentacle, the clothed portion studded with 
parasitic Algw. 
5. Garveia nutans. 
6. Coryne imphxa. 7. Thread-cells of do. 
Plate IV, 
Fig. 1. Goodsirea mirahilis. 2. Thread-cells of do. 
3. Marginal tubercle, with its two tentacles. 
4. Young of Cydippe. 
5. Eudendrium arbuscnla, stalked cluster of double spermatic sacs. 
6. Section of double spermatic sac — a, tubercle containing, c, barbed 
thread-cells. 
7. Psnchastes glacialis. 
1. Coryne implexa (wilder). 
Under the title of Tubularia imp>lexay my friend Mr Alder 
has described a zoophyte discovered by Mr R. Howse in -10 
