74 CHARLES R. ST0CKARD 



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

 of the F 1 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 x 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 F a s 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 1 bassethound-shepherd. There is also 

 considerable tendency in these F ± bassethound-Saluki hybrids 

 toward Saluki slenderness of bone, which would indicate that 

 this quality bone is largely dominant over hound quality. 



The F-2 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^ 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 x 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 



