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Tetraophasis (Ornithology the Ceuta)

in ornithology, the Ceuta. The environs are carefully plantfive marginal scales. Species, T. lessonii Ceuta. The environs are carefully plantthe separate genus of the sub-family Lopho- grapes are exquisite, and the oranges phorinæ, connecting the Phasianinæ with reckoned, by some, superior to any in the grapes are exquisite, and the oranges reckoned, by some, superior to any in the Spanish government, This bird was discovered by Pére David having determined to abandon its claims in Tibet and described by him. General against Morocco, declared Tetuan the color brown, marked with darker shades; bare skin of face red, tarsi and feet horncolor. The sexes are alike in plumage; female destitute of spurs. having determined to abandon its claims etc. Pop. about 25,000. nable, and colonized its territory. The exports are wool, silk, cotton, leather, TETRABRANCHIATA TETRAHEDRON ously folded or coiled, many-chambered, keeled and striated; first dorsal of nusiphuncled; the inner layers and septa nacreous, the outer layers porcellanous.

In palæontology, they attained their maximum in the Palæozoic period, decreasing from that time onward, and being represented at the present by the single genus Nautilus. The Nautilidæ proper and Orthoceratidæ are pre-eminently Palæozoic, while the Ammonitidæ are almost exclusively Mesozoic. merous feeble spines, and continuous with the second. It is a rare fish, more frequently met with in the Mediterranean than in the Atlantic. Nothing is known of its habits, but as, when young, it accompanies the Meduse, it must be regarded as a pelagic form. At a later period of its existence it probably descends to greater depths, coming to the surface only at night. It attains a length of about 18 inches.