ON A HYBRID, OVIS H0DG30NI, CUM VIGNEI. 35 



June, July, October. I have seeu, but not shot them in August and 

 September. They are not so much reduced by shooting (as Mr* 

 Barnes says) as by snaring. Many are brought in alive to the Camp 

 Bazaar, and sent to me and others as presents, their legs being 

 most cruelly tied with feathers plucked from their own wings. I 

 have released several that had been so tied, and have found that it 

 took several days for them to recover sufficiently for them to leave 

 my garden. The pelican ibis breeds here at Chittral and at Thasra 

 in October. The shell ibis breeds in large numbers, with the white 

 ibis and snake bird, near Khaira. Mr. Barnes says he cannot find 

 any record of the occurrence of the cotton-teal in Guzerat. It is 

 very common, especially in May and June, when there are hundreds 

 on Muwal tank, 20 miles north of Barocla. When the rains fall, 

 they disperse over the country and take up their quarters in some 

 small pond or pool, occasionally 



Affording: scarce such breadth of brim, 

 As served the wild duck's brood to swim, 



and they nest in the neighbourhood. I extracted a full-sized soft 



egg from a bird shot near this last September. Mr. Barnes could 



have found it recorded in Butler's Gazetteer list. But enough has 



been said, I hope, to justify, even from my own very limited 



experience, the opinion with which I set out, that Mr. Barnes 



might have got much additional information if he had asked the 



" Bombay Natural History Society" for it, and might thereby have 



rendered his book still more deserving than it is at present of 



being regarded as the standard authority on the birds of the Bombay 



Presidency. 



ON A HYBRID, OVIS HODGSOXI, CUM VIGNEI, 



DISCOVERED AND SHOT by Mons. H. 



DAUVERGNE, 



By R. A. Sxerndale, f.z.s., &c. 



Hybridization between the various known species of Caprce and 



Oves has been abundantly proved by the instances that have occurred 



in the London Zoological Gardens. In 1864 and 1865-67 and 1868, 



a female Capra yEgagrus, the Persian Ibex, bore seven kids, the 



father of which was a Markhor 0. Megaceros. In 1872 a hybrid 



between a male Ovis Aries and a female Ovis Musimon ; in 1871 



two hybrids between Ovis Musimo?i, the Corsican Moufflon, and 



our Indian Ovis Cycloceros were born ; also in 1871 and 1882 two 



between the former and Ovis Aries. There are two species of deer 



