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twelve Merino ewes and an Angora buck, with the hope of 

 establishing a breed of animals intermediate between the 

 two, but it was not till the third season that the experiment 

 succeeded, and the progeny so closely resembled the 

 Merinos that little difference could be noticed in their 

 external characters." 



Quite recently Mr. Sam Woodiwiss kept an Angora 

 she-goat with a Suffolk ram during the breeding season, 

 but nothing resulted therefrom. 



In reference to " Supposed Goat-Sheep Hybrids," the 

 following appeared in the Field under that title on 

 nth February, 1899, over the signature of W. B. Teget- 

 meier, the well-known naturalist: " The subject of sup- 

 posed goat and sheep hybrids appears to be exciting some 

 attention, and I have received several letters respecting it. 

 Professor Newton has referred me to some interesting 

 experiments in France, an account of which I hope 

 speedily to obtain. Mr. C. Tindall, of Wainfleet, has sen/ 

 me a communication informing me that an animal was born 

 last week at Mr. Elsey's farm near Horncastle. He tells 

 me that he saw the supposed hybrid, and could hardly 

 think of it as anything else but a cross, which was the 

 opinion of everyone who saw it. ... The case is 

 interesting, but it cannot be regarded as a definite one, 

 inasmuch as there is no proof that the male parent of the 

 animal was not a ram. Had the ewes been running with 

 the goat alone the evidence would have then been definite 

 and satisfactory; but we have seen in Professor Cossar 

 E wart's experiments that he failed to obtain any hybrid 

 under those conditions." 



