256 Colour and P<itt em-Transference in Pheasants 



parent of the first generation Fi " BA " (Swinhoe) and is a pattern- 

 transference of fixed and heritable nature. 



After research had revealed the origin of the nnitation patterns in 

 Series 1 on throat, breast, and fiank to be derived from tlie marginal 

 interscapulars of the male Swinhoe, a very interesting confirmation of 

 this was found in Series 1" in the pedigree F^ " BAA " which have the 

 same mutations in the same areas, but having also the male Swinhoe 

 interscapular patch, the simple descent was easily traced from its source 

 in beautiful sequence. The thigh tuft mutation was a transnussion of 

 the Vandyke pattern from the breast and flank of the female Swinhoe 

 not from the transitional breast pattern of the immature male Silver 

 which is a rounded design. 



Throat, breast, flank and thigh tuft feathers were extracted from the 

 female Swinhoe, the immature male Silver and Series 1 males F^ " BA," 

 F.i " BBA" F, " BBS A " and F^ " BBBA " inter ae. also the interscapulars 

 from the male Swinhoe, and were laid side by side : after a minute and 

 careful examination and comparison, no doubt whatever existed as to 

 the sources of these four mutations. 



Thus we see pattern-transference maintaining a hybrid condition, 

 forming mutations fixed, constant, and capable of transmission through 

 these four generations of males, phenomena identical with those of the 

 females in the same series, previously recorded. 



Wattles. 



Professor R. C. Punnett wrote asking for information as to the 

 behaviour of this character in the Silver Swinhoe cross (Series 1 in 

 pedigree) ; on consulting the records some notes were found on the size, 

 colour, and hair punctuation of the face skin or wattle. In 1909 the 

 increased size of the wattles in F.^ " BBA " Series 1 was recorded 

 with the remark that large " face skin " was a Silver character. After 

 Professor Punnett drew attention t(j the wattles I made examination in 

 the mating season of 1914, accompanied by rough drawings of the 

 differences in size of wattle in the following three birds : male Swinhoe, 

 male Silver, male F^ " BBBA " inter se Series 1. The wattles of the 

 Swinhoe are considerably smaller than those of the Silver, but the 

 wattles of Fi Series 1 in pedigree are much larger than those of the 

 Silver, the growth is prolonged upwards over the head, meeting above 

 the bill in one solid mass .somewhat ridged in the centre.- The male 

 Silver has always a division of black crest feathers between the two 



