ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



28: 



J er don's 

 No. 



Scientific Name. 



933 



937 



938 



939 



940 



941 



944 



950 



9ti9 



975 



984 



985 



988 ter. 



1004 



1003 



1008 



Ardetta oinnamomea, Gm. ..... 



Nycticorax grisea, Lin 



Tantalus leucocephalns, Porst .. 



Platalea leucorodea, Lin 



Anastornus oscitans, Bodd 



Ibis melanocephala, Lath. 



Phoenicopterus autiquorum.Tem 

 Sarcidiornis melanonotus, Penn 



Fuligula nvroca, Guld 



Podiceps minor, Gm 



Hydrochelidon hybrida, Pall. .. 



Sterna seena, Sykes 



Sterna saundersi, Hume 



Pelecinus philippensis, Gm 



Phalacrocorax fuscicolis, Step.. 

 Plotus melanogaster, Penn 



Popular Name. 



No. of 

 Eggs. 



The Chesnut Bittern ...., 



The Night Heron 



The Pelican Ibis 



The Spoonbill Heron ... 



The Shell Ibis 



The White Ibis 



The Flamingo 



The Comb Duck 



The White-eyed Pochard 



The Dabchick 



The March Tern 



The Large River Tern . 

 Saunder's Little Tern .... 



The Grey Pelican 



The Lesser Cormorant . 

 The Snake Bird 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



NOTES ON A HORN ON THE MARGIN OF A GOAT'S EAR. 



By Veterinary. Surgeon J. H. Steel, Superintendent, Bombay Veterinary 



College. 



This specimen, presented by Colonel Biddulph, was obtained in Deoli (Rajputana). 

 The head is a fine one of black colour and having two spiral horns well developed 

 of even twist and backward and outward slope; the ears'are long, broad, and pendant, 

 covered externally with short black hair and internally having a fair quantity of 

 long straight hair near the margins. The peculiarity affects the posterior margin 

 and both the surfaces of the right ear at about the middle third of the margin, a 

 distance of some three inches from the tip. On the outer surface a semicircle of 

 the skin about half an inch in diameter has undergone warty change, forming an 

 irregular horny mass, the area of which is extended by the oircular base of the horn 

 which grows from the inner surface. The base of the horn is about 1£ in. in dia- 

 meter, it has hairs growing from among the horny material and a small irregular 

 projection like the commencement of another horn on a smaller ecale. The horn is 

 in the main conical, about 5 in. in length, and curls slightly outwards at its tip, its 

 growth is by concentric rings and its texture is distinctly fibrous, but less regular 

 than that of ordinary horns. Its attachment to the ear seems firm enough, but only 

 by a very small portion of its base, and looks so imperfect that the Honorory 

 Secretary, in handing me the specimen, implored me, whatever I did, not to let the 

 horn come off the ear. The base is not quite circular, being prolonged somewhat 

 supero-internally. The growth seems 'a genuine natural though irregular one 

 and we are informed in the letter which accompanied the head that there was 



