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From what I have just said, mixed broods, or cygnets varying in 
colour, are just what we might expect; hut so far from this being 
the case, I never could hear of any variation. Seventy cygnets now 
in the swan pit are as much alike as it is possible for them to be. 
Mr. Simpson who has had from seventy to a hundred through his 
hands yearly for the past thirty years, never saw a white 
cygnet. From this, I think, we may conclude that if there is 
a mixture of blood, the dark colour inherited from the Olor 
parent is so strong in the cygnet as not to be appreciably affected 
by the Polish strain, but that the characters which distinguish the 
Polish breed assert themselves at a later age. Mr. Gurney will 
doubtless report fully to the Zoological Society on the birds 
intrusted to his care; and as both Mr. Dresser, Prof. Newton, and 
Mr. Stevenson will have to give the subject their consideration in 
their respective books, now in the course of publication, we may 
hope soon to have the long Vexed question finally settled. 
March 12th, 1877. Mr. Gurney tells me the young Polish 
swans are now pure white, with the exception of the crown of 
their heads, and that from one of the two survivors even this small 
display of colour has nearly disappeared. 
III. 
NOTE ON FUNGI FOUND AT BRANDON. 
BEING A LIST OF SPEGIES FOUND IN THE MONTH 
OF NOVEMBER, 1876. 
By Charles B. Plowright. 
Read 3 oth January, 1877 . 
On Friday, November 8 th, 1876, I visited Brandon at the sug- 
gestion of Mr. Thomas Southwell; with the intention of examining 
certain Fungi which had been observed by that gentleman, a week 
or two previously, growing upon a heap of sawdust near Brandon 
