448 Notes on the Hawfinch. 
permanently attached, carnose, generally strengthened with a horny 
or calcareous axis enveloped with the gelatinous or creto-gelatinous 
crust in which the polype-cells are immersed, and which open on the 
surface in a starred fashion with eight rays. Marine. 
Order III. HELIANTHOIDA. Polypes single, free or permanently 
attached, fleshy, naked or encrusted with a calcareous Polypidom, 
the upper surface of which is crossed with radiating lamellae ; mouth 
encircled with tubulous tentacula ; stomach membranous, plaited ; 
intestine 0; anusO; ovaries in thread-like bundles, internal. Ma- 
rine. 
Sub-class II. MOLLUSCAN ZOOPHYTES. 
Body non-contractile, and non-symmetrical ; mouth and anus 
separate ; always oviparous ? 
Order IV. ASCIDIOIDA. Polypes aggregate, the mouth encircled 
with filiform ciliated retractile tentacula ; a distinct stomach, with 
a curved intestine terminating in an anus near the mouth ; ova in- 
ternal. Polypidoms very variable, either horny, fistular and con- 
fervoid, or calcareous, membranous, or fibro-gelatinous, formed of 
cells connected and arranged in a determinate and usually quin- 
cuncial manner. Marine and lacustrine. 
To be continued. 
VI Notes on the Hawfinch (Coccotkraustes vulgaris^Cuv.) as ob- 
served in the vicinity of Epping Forest. By HENRY DOUBLE- 
DAY, Esq. 
BY nearly all our writers on ornithology, the Hawfinch has been 
considered as only a visitor of the British Islands, and these visits 
have been supposed to be confined to the winter season, and to occur 
at rather uncertain periods. 
Situate in a locality where these birds abound, I have for some 
years past given close attention to their habits, and I can safely a as- 
sert, that they are permanent residents, nor can I perceive any ad- 
dition to their numbers by the arrival of foreigners at any period 
of the year. 
Their extreme shyness has no doubt contributed to keep us in 
ignorance of their habits and economy : in this trait they exceed 
almost any land bird with which I am acquainted, and in open 
places it it almost impossible to approach them within gunshot. 
Their principal food here appears to be the seed of the Hornbeam 
(Carpinus betula, Linn.J which is the prevailing species of tree in 
Epping forest j they also feed on the kernels of the haws, plum- 
