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duck being shot in the Bombay Presidency, though I believe a few 

 have been procured at Kurrachee. 



The following ducks have all been shot by me about Bombay : — 



The whistling teal, the shoveller, the gadwall, the common teal, 

 the garganey teal, the pochard or dun bird, the white-eyed pochard, 

 to which list may be added the nukta, the tufted pochard and the 

 scaup mentioned above. The shell drake, the Brahminy, the 

 mallard, the spot-billed duck, the pintail and the wigeon, I have 

 not come across near Bombay. 



The whistlino- teal and cotton teal, I think, breed in some tanks a 

 few miles from Narel; as least I have seen lai-ge numbers there. 



The pheasant-tailed Jacana. — I have seen numbers of these birds 

 on the tanks at Callian. 



The Woodcock. — One was shot near Tanna in 1878. I saw the skin. 

 (See Stray Feathers, Vol. 7, p. 525). 



I hope that other members of the Society, who have more time at 

 their disposal than I have, will send to the Society's Journal any- 

 thing worth recording that they may have observed. 



SOME FURTHER NOTES ON ABNORMAL HORN'S. 

 By the Editor. 



One of the most interesting cases of abnormality that has come 

 before me lately is that of a doe-antelope, A. bezoartica, of which I 

 give an illustration. The females of this species, as in the case of 

 most of the Cervidce and Arttelopinoe, are hornless, but this 

 specimen exhibits a pair of very symmetrical horns, ringed, but not 

 spiral, situated on well-formed bony cores and diverging outwards, 

 downwards, and forwards like those of a wild sheep. The horns 

 are thin, about 1 inch in diameter, and about 22 inches in length. 

 They belong unmistakably to a doe, and not to a young male. 

 The skin has well-defined traces of the mammas. The animal was 

 shot by native shikaris, and the head and skin, which are the 

 property of H. H. the Maharajah of Jodhpore, were sent here for 

 inspection. It is to be regretted that we had not the creature 

 in the flesh, for dissection would probably have shown abnormal 

 conditions, either hermaphroditism or ovarian disease. In the Linn. 

 Transactions, Vol. II., it is recorded that a female doe with a single 

 horn resembling that of a three-year old buck, was found on dis- 

 section to have the ovary of the same side scirrhous. An interesting 



