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of Goat from the Mountains of Kashmir, brought home 

 and presented by Capt. Brown of the Bombay Irregular 

 Cavahy. The extreme difficulty of capturing these hill- 

 ranging animals alive, and the great distance they have to 

 be brought down to the coast, render their acquisition im- 

 possible, except through the cooperation of officers, who, 

 like Capt. Brown, have penetrated into the fastnesses in 

 which they breed. 



The partial success which attended the importation of 

 Indian Gallinace.e by the late Earl of Derby, and the 

 late Viscount Hardinge, from whose birds the Impeyan 

 Pheasants in Her Majesty's Collection are descended, and 

 by Mr. Clarke of Swakeleys, from whose birds those in the 

 possession of the Society are descended, has afforded suffi- 

 cient evidence of the practicability of acclimating several 

 of the magnificent species which inhabit the temperate 

 and colder regions of the Himalaya. 



The present Governor- General of India having been 

 apphed to by His Royal Highness the President and by 

 the Council for assistance in this interesting object, has 

 met their wishes in the most Uberal and energetic manner, 

 in which His Excellency has been most cordially seconded 

 by Lord W. Hay, Capt. Hay, Major Ramsay, Mr. Keene, 

 and Capt. James, the acting Resident at Darjeeling. 



By their combined exertions a most interesting and exten- 

 sive collection of Himalayan Gallinaceae has been formed, 

 including 



The Impeyan Pheasant; 

 The Red-breasted Ceriornis; 

 The Pucras; 

 The Kalisch, and 

 The Cheer; 

 to receive which a skilful and trustworthy person was dis- 

 patched from England in the month of September last. 



Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to give her 

 most gracious support to this undertaking, towards the 

 expenses of which the sum of £100 has been offered 

 by Her Majesty, and similar amounts by the Marquis of 

 Breadalbane and the Viscount Hill. 



As an equivalent proportion of the birds will, on their 

 arrival, be placed at the disposal of Her Majesty, the Mar- 

 quis of Breadalbane, and the Viscount Hill, the probabilities 

 of their acclimatation will be considerably increased by the 

 experiment being carried on simultaneously in four distinct 



