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also some breeds of fowl in which the female possesses spurs. 

 Hesse (1910) refers to this as an inheritance of male characters 

 by the female. But the facts recorded above show^ that this 

 phenomenon can be explained in another manner (see especially 

 Chapter XL ) . The relation between the sexes in the Turnicidae 

 and in Phalaropus is very different from what is usual in birds 



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Fig. 34B. Castrated Sebright Cock. 



— From T. H. Morgan. 



In the Turnicidae, living in southern Europe, Africa, Asia and 

 Australia, the female has a brighter plumage than the male, 

 the female is also of a greater size and stronger; the females 

 play the more active role in the relation between the two 

 sexes, and utter the mating call and engage in sexual play, 

 and fight one another {Brehm, vol. VIL, p. 5). This is true 

 also for the Phalaropes {Brehm, vol. VIL, p. 268), living in the 

 northern countries, the Hebrides, the Faroes, Iceland, Lapland, 

 and the northern coasts. Also in the golden snipe (Rostratula 

 capensis) w^hich lives in Africa and southern Asia, the male 

 apparently sits on the eggs (Brehm, vol. VIL, p. 273). Lately 



