BREEDING AND INBREEDING FOR COLOR IN SOME DOMESTIC PIGEONS. 



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cf Homer (CI); hatched 3/5/01; 



9 HomrT (r) = i:;i; H 15/01; 3d 

 3/14/02; prolKil.Iv iio( h:iich.,l. 

 3/16/02; probably ii.,t hal.lir.l. 

 4/11 

 4/13 



?; hatched, pale with reddish bars 

 10/1; no record. 

 10/3; no record. 

 2/14/03; hatched; no record. 

 2/16/03; failed. 



Table 73. 

 len gray; 2-barred ("doiible-i 

 ir very obscure; chequers nor 



" to the mate), 

 ing. few on scaps. 



^both hatched, on 



2-barred and dark gray, other, very light or pale gray with two reddish bar 



■The 





F 1. 3/26; no record. 

 F 2. 3/28; no record. 

 G 1. 7/4; no record. 

 G 2. 7/6; no record, 

 some chequi 



/13; no record. 



cT C. tabella 



(6); 



$ C. tabellaria (5) ; 

 A 1. 4/12/04; removed. 

 A 2 4/14/04; removed. 

 B 1. 5/15; no development. 

 B 2. 5/17; no development. 

 C 1. 7/6; probably no development. 

 C 2. 7/S; probably no development. 



D 1. l/25/05\one hatched; dead (care) few days; other 



D 2. 1/27/05/ egg failed. 



F 1. 4/4; not tested. 



F2. 4/6; not tested. 



G 1. 5/1; no development. 



G 2. 5 '3; no development. 



E 1. 3/5; a little development. 

 E 2. 3/7; a little development. 

 H 1. 5/30; no development. 

 H 2. 6/1; no development. 



7/24 



„/few days development. 



J. 1/7/06; bird hatched, but "suspected another male had fertilized this egg." 

 K 1. no development. 

 K 2. no development. 



Table 75. 

 cf C. tabellaria (1907) ; 3-barred, trace chequers on scapulars, same as sire. 

 9 C. tabellaria (from fancier 1907) ; 2-barred, true rock type; dead 5/?/09. 



'{a'> jo/jQ/oTf'"^''^'^'^''' °"^ '^'"^'''' °*'^^'' '^ P'^'^ ' 3 bars; weak chequers. 



B 1. 5/12/08; hatched; color like sire. 

 B 2. 5/14/OS; hatched; color like dam. 



C 1. 6/15/OS; hatched) , , , r i . u- j i -ii j D 1. 9/5; hatched; 



^, „ ../.-/.lo . i 1 J /about color of old birds, killed. „„ „ /., , ^ t ■ 



C 2. 6/17/08; hatchedj D 2. 9/7; hatched; 



frills (see pi. 7 



9 E 1. 10/28; light gray; 2 narrow bars, a trace of third; obscure chequers on scap 

 9 E 2. 10/30; trace darker than E 1; 2 bars, no trace of third; no chequers. 

 9 F. 2/2/09; hatched; very light gray; 2 extremely narrow bars. 

 cTG 1. 3/23; hatched; rock-gray; 2 bars, narrowed. 

 9G 2. 3/25; hatched; rock-gray; 2 bars, about normal.- 



.•e) mated to sire;' ve 

 shed out; breast frill. 



Above 9 disappeared, and 9 F (2/2/09 abi 

 c^H 1. 8/10/09; hatched; very light; 2 bars with most black w 

 9 H2. 8/12/09; hatched; clear rock-gray; 2 narrow bars. 



cT I 1. 1 1/15; hatched; rock-gray; only 4 spotsof posterior bar, anterior bar absent (se( 

 9 12. 11/17; hatched; almost white ■• or silver gray; 2 weak bars (see pi. 16); frilled. 



J 1. 1/7/10; no development. 



J 2. 1/9/10; no development. 

 cfK. 2/5; hatched; dai-k gray tinged with brown; bars weak, 

 cf L 1. 2/13; very dark gray like K; bars ob.scure. 

 9 L 2. 2/15; color light; marrow bars, these disappearing in lower half. 



16), except few "freckles"; frilled 



(G12) 

 ds that 



' The original purpose of this breeding was to get progeny of "two bars" or less (without chequers). The 

 g,ave little promise of leading in this direction were usually killed as soon as they came to full plumage. — Editor. 



- "Thus from B to G we have had only 2-barred young, with bars sometimes much below the normal width and density." 

 (G 12) 



' "This female was barely 5 months old and mated at once. From this inbreeding I hope to see the bars further reduced." 



* It is notable that this female was fertile — at least 1 egg of 2 laid — when mated with her clutch-mate brother (I 1) ; 

 there is no record of this offspring after hatching and it probably died before old enough to disclose its color. It seems prob- 

 able, too, that this single clutch was all that was produced in 1910. — Editoh. 



