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Show 1886.] ON OVIS HODGSONI AND OVIS VIGNEI. 205 scarcely any dense black, while the hind legs are slightly tawny with clear 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 can 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 seen, 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 m y investigation. " I remain, dear Sir, Yours sincerely, (Signed) N E N D I C K A B R A H A M, Pres. Graham's-town Natural History Society." April 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, 18N6, amongst the broken tiles at the bottom of a pot of Calceolaria, 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 vignei 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 |