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Sonnerat's wild Fowl has crossed with Bantam & the hybrids have interbred & they returned to Sonerat, so that I mistook; grandchild for pure Sonnerat. Sonerats have crossed with Pheasant.

Mr Miller Get his address— about Pintail

Hybrids

[Natural selection, p. 435: "12 Mr. Blyth raised many hybrids from this bird & a domestic Hen from Aracan, but these were quite sterile inter se & with the domestic cock or Hen. But several years ago I myself saw at the Zoological Gardens young birds, which were the offspring of hybrids inter se from a Sonnerat cock & Bantam Hen; some of these had returned most closely to the pure Sonnerat & others, as I was told, to the pure Bantam: there could hardly be any mistake here; for they had then only one Sonnerat cock; & the fact of the young (or grand‐children) returning towards both pure species strongly corroborates their asserted parentage.—I was told by the curator Mr. Miller at the Zoological Gardens that hybrids have been raised between this Fowl & the Pheasant."]