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Paris during the autumn of last year. With two exceptions, noticed below, 

 they were exhibited at the Jardin d'Acclirnatation, at which place much 

 attention is paid to hybridization, the results being very successful. I have 

 compared my impressions of these Mules with the coloured plates of those 

 figured in the * Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley,' and in order the 

 better to identify those which I saw, I give the stud names. " Persans," a 

 Mule between a Jack Ass and Zebra, is not so much striped as might have 

 been expected, and in this respect resembles the figure in the ' Knowsley 

 Menagerie,' the shoulder stripes and those on the legs being very well 

 defined. " Neptune," a Mule between the Horse and Burchell's Zebra ; 

 in colour a bright bay ; stripes on body very faint, shoulder stripe hardly 

 visible; legs nearly black, with very faint indications of stripes; dorsal 

 stripe well defined. " Fatima," a Mule between a white Egyptian Ass 

 and Burchell's Zebra, characterised by three well-defined shoulder-stripes ; 

 otberwise very faintly marked ; in the paucity of markings it agrees with 

 a similar Mule figured in the ' Knowsley Menagerie'; the latter, however, 

 has but one shoulder-stripe. A Mule between a Hemione, Equus onager, 

 and Burchell's Zebra (Jardin des Plantes) is faintly striped over .the face, 

 fore part of the body, and legs to the hoofs ; dorsal stripe very broad, and 

 the colour from the middle of the body to the tail dappled. A Mule 

 between a Hemione and a Tarbes mare (Jardin des Plantes): shoulder 

 stripe absent ; dorsal stripe broad, but faint ; I could not perceive any sign 

 of corns on the hind legs. " Sanspareille," Mule between a Hemione and 

 Mare ; a very beautiful animal, similar to the last named. " Catherine," 

 an Arab Mule, remarkable for having produced foals both with the Horse 

 and the Ass. [In the opinion of Mr. C. L. Sutherland, than whom there 

 is no better authority on the subject, it is extremely doubtful whether this 

 animal really is a Mule. Its history is not forthcoming, and if this were 

 unimpeachable, Mr. Sutherland states that it would be the sole authenticated 

 case of the kind which he has heard of in an experience of thirty years on 

 the Continent of Europe and in the United States. He adds that in Poitou 

 (where some 50,000 mares are kept for Mule breeding) all the experienced 

 breeders disbelieved in this Parisian so-called fertile Mule, there being 

 no record in Poitou of a female Mule having produced a foal. — Ed.] 

 " Kroumir" is a dark grey male Mule three-quarters horse. " Constantine" 

 and " Hippone," two grey female Mules three-quarters horse; these three 

 animals are so like horses that the difference can be perceived only by a very 

 close scrutiny ; the corns are plainly visible on the hind legs. " Salem," 

 Mule from an Arab Mule and a white Egyptian Ass ; this animal is nearly 

 white, and closely resembles an Ass. " Athman," Mule from an Ass and 

 fertile Mule (?); a darker animal than the last-named, and more closely 

 Resembling an Ass.— J. Jenner Weir (Cherbury, Beckenham, Kent). 



T he Extinction of the Bison.— The Report of the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution at Washington for the year 1887 refers to the 



