Note 46 — Chapter XIII · INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OF ATAVISM.

M. E. de Selys-Longchamps refers (‘Bulletin Acad. Roy. de Bruxelles,’ tom. xii. No. 10) to more than seven of these hybrids shot in Switzerland and France. M. Deby asserts (‘Zoologist,’ vol. v., 1845-46, p. 1254) that several have been shot in various parts of Belgium and Northern France. Audubon (‘Ornitholog. Biography,’ vol. iii. p. 168), speaking of these hybrids, says that, in North America, they “now and then wander off and become quite wild.”