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The chamois is known to cross freely with the domestic goat, 
and Mr Sterndale recorded (Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
April 6th, 1886, page 205) a hybrid between Ovis vignei and O. 
Hodgsoni, which had occurred south of the Indus on the mountain 
range near Lanskar; and Sir Victor Brooke suggested that the 
species O. Brookei, Ward, was probably established on a somewhat 
similar hybrid. 
Mr Palmedo, H.M. Consul in Corsica, in 1832, remarked : 
“¢ General Merlin, the commanding officer of Corsica, has now not 
only a young moufflon born of two tame ones in his possession, 
but also an offspring of the same male moufflon and of a ewe.” 
(Proc. Zool. Soc., 1832, page 9). Likewise, it was remarked 
(Field, May 16th, 1885) that Professor Kuhn has also crossed 
the domestic sheep with the moufilon, Ovis musmon, the wild 
sheep of Corsica and Sardinia. The results were equally 
favourable with the various European, Asiatic, and African 
breeds of domestic sheep and uniformly successful, whether 
ewes of the domestic sheep were crossed with moufflon 
rams, or the reverse. Their descendants proved fertile in both 
cases when crossed with each other. This was the case with 
animals of close consanguinity and even with twins, and in 
1885 lambs of mule crossings have been born which belong to 
the fourth generation of these animals crossed exclusively 
between themselves. 
All are aware of the existence of mules and hinnies between 
the horse and the ass, and although some of these mules have 
been observed to produce offspring, Columella (M. de la Malle, 
Ann. des Sciences Nat., xxvii., page 235) and others have 
remarked that they do not have fertile crosses among them- 
selves, but only when interbreeding with one of the primitive 
species from which they had been derived. Mr Tegetmeier, in 
the Field (July 14th, 1888) observed that at Sir H. Meux’s, at 
Theobald’s, there was a fine mare of Burchell’s zebra, Equus 
Burchelli, among a herd of ponies, and she had two fillies: one 
of these rising three years old had been sired by one of the 
ponies, and showed the stripes of the zebra to a moderate 
degree. The other and finer filly, a yearling, was the offspring 
