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MR. U. SETH-SMITH OX AX ABXORMAL BUCK. 



species. ' Mr. Elwes bad also presented to the Society a younj? 

 bird wbich be bad bred from tbe above-mentioned bybrid, paired 

 to a pure hen Swinhoe Pheasant, but this bird was not yet in 

 adult plumage. 



Mr. Seth- Smith also exhibited a male Mandarin Duck {jEx 

 galericulata) bred in the Society's Gardens, during the current 

 year, in which an extra digit had grown from tlie inner side 

 of the right tibiatarsal joint (text-fig. 1). He remarked that 



Text-figure 1. 



Right leg- of male Mandarin Duck, witli superunmerary digit. 



similar cases had been recorded by Bateson (' Materials for 

 the Study of Varintion,' page 394), but he believed that such 

 abnormalities were rare, especially in birds other tlu\n those 

 long domesticated. 



