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scarcely any dense black, while the hind legs are slightly tawny with 
elear markings of black and white. The whole skin is very handsome 
and remarkable. The specimen was caught by a native in a trap and 
then shot. The native took the tip of the tail and the claws for 
trophies. It was caught about twenty miles from Graham’s-town. 
I have made many inquiries respecting this peculiar variety with the 
hope of forming some good theory explaining this deviation from 
the ordinary type. I ean only trace four specimens, viz. :—The skin 
in the Graham’s-town Museum (this is a good specimen, but not 
nearly so black as the one in my possession); another was taken 
to England by Mr. Bowker, and is in the British Museum; a 
third was sold some time ago at a Church bazaar, but I cannot trace 
it; and the fourth I have. I do not know of any other for certain. 
All these have been shot in, or about the same district. The one I 
have came from Collingham near to Graham’s-town. I am told that 
there are two living specimens still in the district, and there may be 
more, but these two have been seén, but not captured. I am still 
on the trail for more information ; at present I cannot give any 
certain or probable account of the origin of this variety, but I write 
this to you and shall be glad to forward you further information when 
I have completed my investigation. 
*T yemain, dear Sir, 
Yours sincerely, 
(Signed) Nenpick ABRAHAM, 
Pres. Graham's-town Natural History Society.” 
Apnil 20, 1886. 
Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. O. Salvin, F.R.S., exhibited a living specimen of an exotic 
Worm—Bipalium kewense (Moseley, Ann. & Mag. N.H. ser. 5, vol. i. 
p- 238), found at Hawksfold, Fernhurst, April 19, 186, amongst 
the broken tiles at the bottom of a pot of Calceolarta, which had 
been in a cold frame the whole winter. This fact suggested that 
the true home of B. kewense was some temperate region. 
The following extract was read from a letter addressed by Mr. 
R. A. Sterndale, F.Z.S., to Sir Victor Brooke, concerning a case of 
hybridism between Ovis hodgsoni and O. vignei :— 
‘In the mountain-range south of the Indus, near Lanskar (the 
precise locality being for obvious reasons withheld from publication), 
a herd of Ovis vignet were observed for some years to contain a large 
ram of Ovis hodgsoni, who drove out the weaker Shapoo rams and 
appropriated the ewes of the herd. The ram was ultimately, one 
winter, killed and eaten. by Chankos or Tibetan wolves; but 
during his stay he produced a family of hybrids possessing greater 
size of horn and head, with characteristic colouring combining traits 
