COLOUR AND PATTERN-TRANSFERENCE IN 

 PHEASANT CROSSES. 



By rose HAIG THOMAS, F.Z.S., F.L.S. 



CONTENTS. 



Foreword ...... 



Introduction ...... 



Fertile Hybrids 



Characters of Parent Species . 

 Schemes of Mating for Sterile and Fertile 

 Transference of PlumaKC Patterns . 

 Life History of Sterile Hybrids 



Keeves x Versicolor .... 



Reeves x Formosan .... 

 Life History of Series 1 Fertile Hybrids 



Wattles 



Life History of Series !• Fertile Hybrids 

 Nature and Inheritance of Moult . 



Habits 



Inheritance of Leg Characters 

 Summary ....... 



Appendix A. Sterile Hybrids . 

 B. Fertile Hybrids . 

 Description of Plates .... 



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Foreword. 



An apology is needed for the somewhat, vohiminou.s number of 

 instances that accompany this paper of the various methods of pattern- 

 transference ; but gathering these from notes and observations carried 

 on over eight or nine years, the experimentalist must inevitably lay 

 before the reader a vast amount of detail, though it is imperative that 

 this shall be presented in as condensed a form as is compatible with 

 brevity and lucidity. The indidgence of the reader is asked if the 

 result has failed to meet these requirements. 



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