268 Colour and Pattern-Transference In Pheasants 



APPENDIX A. 



Sterile Hybrids. 



Transmissiun by male jMrent to female offspring of the female 

 plutnage of his species. 



F,. Reeves? x Versicolor c/ , ? " B." 1909 bird: (1909 plumage). 



GeoftVey Smith examined and made preparations of sexual organs. 



Breast : Centre, dull buff. 



Pattern -transference. Anterior, patterned like female Versicolor 



posterior. 



Fkniks : Patterned, transmitteil by male parent. 



Back : Structure \ 



Form I fetnale Versicolor, transmitted by male 



Colour [ parent. (PI. XXXV, fig. 9.) 



Pattern 



Interscapulars: Form 



Pattern ' 



female Versicolor with some modifications 

 towards male Reeves, transmitted by both 



j parents. (PI. XXXVII, figvs. 9, 10.) 

 Scapulars : Pattern, female Versicolor, transmitted by male parent. 



(PI. XXXVI, fig. 10.) 

 Wing : Primary and coverts 



female Versicolor, transmitted 

 by male parent. 



Tail : 



Tail covert : 



matching 

 Secondary and coverts 



matching 

 Centrals "I all rectrices similar in pattern, male Reeves 

 Laterals j character, also female Versicolor character. 

 Pattern, hybrid, transmitted by both parents. 

 Pattern, female Versicolor, transmitted by male parent. 

 (PI. XXXIV, fig. 7.) 

 Nearly every character of this hen was transmitted by the male 

 pai-ent. In every instance the transmission of chaiacter by either 

 parent was of the opposite sex of their .species. 



F,. Reeves $ xFormosaUc/', ? "5." 1910 bird. Geoffrey Smith 

 ("£"). 



Breast : Colour, female Formosan, a slightly deeper buff, the 



flank pattern of female Formosan appears on the 



