minantia_, Artiodactyla--The following
illustrations were inadvertently omitted from the text in the
section on the _Artiodactyla_.

[Illustration: 1. Pig, or African deerlet. 2. Javan deerlet. 3.
Roebuck. 4. Sheep. 5. Camel.]

_Wild Boar_, No. 434.--A few days before leaving England, I called
to say good-bye to an old friend well known in Calcutta and Lower
Bengal, Dr. Charles Palmer. He asked me whether I had ever heard of
a boar killing a tiger, and, on my answering in the affirmative, he
told me he had just heard from his son, who had witnessed a fight
between these two animals, in which the boar came off victorious,
leaving his antagonist dead on the field.

_Ovis Polii_, No. 438.--Mr. Carter in one of his letters to me says:
"I see that you make the biggest horns of _Ovis Polii_ 53 inches from
tip to tip. In a photo of one brought down by the Yarkhand Expedition,
which had a foot rule laid close, so as to scale it, the distance
from tip to tip is nearly five feet."

I do not know which particular head is referred to, but two out of
the three measurements given by me were of the finest heads brought
down by the Expedition. There may have been a smaller pair with a
wider spread, as the 73-inch horns I also mention, and which Sir
Victor Brooke, to whom I sent a photograph, tells me is the finest
head he has heard of, has only a spread of 48 inches.

_Ovis cycloceros_, No. 443.--I gave from 25 to 30 inches as an average
size for the horns of this species, but Captain W. Cotton, F.Z.S.,
writes to me that he sent home a pair of ovrial horns from Cabul,
35-1/2 inches, and that there is a pair in the R.A. mess at Attock
38-1/2 inches, but very thin. They were looted in the Jowaki campaign.
This sheep has bred freely in the Zoological Society's Gardens, and
two hybrids have been born there from a male of this species and the
Corsican mouflon, _Ovis musimon_.

I mentioned that there is in the Gardens a specimen of _Ovis
Blanfordi_. I see by the Society's list that this was presented by
Captain Cotton; the habitat given is Afghanistan.

_The Wild Goat of Asia Minor_, No. 448.--Mr. Carter writes to me:
"In one of your letters you mention the Scind ibex, which is a wild
goat. I have a photo of a head 31 inches round curve, but Mr.
Inverarity, barrister, Bombay, says he has seen one 52-1/2. The
animal is not much bigger than the black buck." This last agrees with
the estimate I formed from the specimens in the