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Letter (7)

Sheet 1. p. 1 name of great snail introduced

p. 2. Feral Fowls

Sheet 2. p. 3.— Donkeys in India with zebra marks on legs ie not climate, & rarely an additional shoulder stripe.

p. 4. — Cats of India, an indigenous species domesticated.

Sheet 4. p. 1 wild Duck in Himalaya

.3 the same form may have been different [illeg] in different spot — instances of close species — Skua gull fd in Australia & not in Tropics.— A cockatoo varying in size in different regions of Australia

Sheet 5 p. 1 do subject

p 2. Hybrid Calcutta journal of nat. History Hutton on crosses of Capra Ægagrus

p 3 Chamber Journal (before Oct. 1855 Red Deer Sterile

p. 4 Metaphor of affinities like branches of tree,

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Letter 8 Sh 1. p. 2 Gallus brighter coloured & more easily domesticated in Burmah than in India

Sh. 2. p. 1. On the Hybrid-geese of India

Letter 9. p. 4 Hybrid-geese

p. 4 on gallus Bankiva from Burmah.

Letter 10. nothing particular

Sheet 2 p. 1. Quote Blyth on relation of range to question of Red Grouse being species.

Last page, important on varieties crossing when ranges meet.— Coracias Treron.—

Letter 11. Sh. 1. p. 1. suspects Carp a Golden var.

— p. 3. variations of wild gallus Bankiva

Letter 12. Sh. 1. p. 4. Description of gallus various f g.  is a hybrid.

Sh. 4. p. 1 Respect on infertility of G. Sonnerati

— p. 2. Refers about skua gull not in Tropics, but in Australia, to Gould; & I have consulted him.

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Letter 13. Sh. 1. p. 4. Has got all the breeds of Pigeons f in India of the Slate colour with bars & one colour of Rumps.

sh. 2 p. 1. on antiquity of Fowls in India

— p. 2. Description of Indian Pigeons domestic varieties.—

sh. 3. do

Letter 14. — Notes on domestic Pigeons

— 15 Wild gallus without white lappets

He has written on Pigeons in C.

June 1860 Stenops gracilis, figured by Sir. E. Tennent is an animal with long fingers about which in a recent letter Blyth wrote to me some curious facts.