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the same feature, less reduced in size, can be seen. The body 

 of the F! is slender and its movements and postures are closely 

 similar to those of the Saluki. This similarity is noticeable 

 even in the photographs. 



The F! bassethound-Saluki has the short hair of its basset- 

 hound parent. The Saluki body coat of silky hair of medium 

 length with the long fringe on the legs and tail and the long 

 wavy hair about the ears seems to be recessive to the basset- 

 hound short hair, whereas, it will be recalled, the full shep- 

 herd coat is dominant over the short hair of the bassethound. 

 Two of the five FjS, a male and a female, were spotted, and 

 three were brown and tan with white markings on the chest. 

 The male Saluki of the parent cross, though black and tan, 

 carried a recessive for spotting and the mating to the spotted 

 bassethound bitch therefore resulted in an almost equal num- 

 ber of spotted and uniformly colored offspring. The spotting 

 in these breeds is recessive. 



The legs of the FjS are short with mild symptoms of the 

 twist in shape and abduction at the wrist common in achon- 

 droplasia. These features are not nearly so strongly pro- 

 nounced as in the F! bassethound-shepherd. There is also 

 considerable tendency in these Fj bassethound-Saluki hybrids 

 toward Saluki slenderness of bone, which would indicate that 

 this quality bone is largely dominant over hound quality. 



The Fz bassethound-Saluki hybrids. Eleven litters of F 2 

 bassethound-Saluki hybrids, totaling eighty-two individuals, 

 have been whelped. The litters were uniformly large, con- 

 taining from six to nine members, and the F 2 puppies were 

 unusually vigorous; only a very small percentage of them 

 failed to reach maturity. 



The sex ratios in the litters produced by the two F x basset- 

 hound-Saluki mothers were quite strongly contrasted. From 

 one mother the ratio was three to one for males, and from 

 the other it was only one to three. The female F t 507 9 produced 

 thirty-three males to twelve females, while the sister, 508 9 , 

 produced nine males to twenty-eight females. In the case 

 of 507 9 there was a litter of eight, a litter of six and a litter 



