288 Secondary Sexual Characters in Pheasants 



F3. $, "B." Breast: coarse vermiculation, ground a pale olive shade of 

 buff; the Anterior feathers resemble "Z" $. 



Flank: coarse vermiculation or broken lines on same 

 ground. 

 F.,. $, "C." Breast: Posterior feathers, in that the lines are light on 

 a black gi-ound, resemble "B" parent, but in the form 

 and colour of them, pale buff, they differ. Anterior 

 feathers hybrid. Plate XXIV, fig. 8a, h. 



Flank: light lines on black groimd resembling " B" parent 

 but again the form and coloiu', jiale buff, differ. Plate 

 XXIV, fig. 8 c. 

 F,. ?,"P." (Grey mutation.) 



Breast : Anterior dark grey ; Posterior, fine dark grey 

 vermiculation on pale grey ground. Plate XXIV, 

 fig. 9 a, b. 



Flank : same as Posterior feathers. 



"BBBA," inter se. 



F,. %%, "K," "F," "M" "G," "G," all hybrid, patterns widely diver- 

 gent, showing segregation. 

 F^. ^,"K." Breast and Flank: light broken lines on dark ground 



like "B" parent are nevertheless hybritl in pattern 



and colour of lines, which are buff. Plate XXIV, 



fig. 12 a, 6. 

 Fi. $, "F." Breast almost an unpatterned olive of a buff shade, some 



very fine mottling on part of the feathers. Plate XXIV, 



fig. 13 a. 

 Flank fine vermiculation on lighter shade of buff' olive. 



Plate XXIV, fig. 136. 

 Fi. $,"il/." Breast: Anterior hybrid; Posterior like "A" ? also 

 Pattern- resembling in pattern the flank feather of the young 



transference. eight months old male of " B " parent. Plate XXIV, 



fig. 36, c. A sex pattern-transference. Plate XXIV, 



fig. 14 a. 

 Flank : hybrid ; over all these feathers lies the buff stain 



oi"A" parentage. Plate XXIV, fig. 146. 

 Fi. ?, "C." Breast and Flank: hybrid, like "M," the "A" parentage 



is clearly traced both in pattern and in the colour, a 



warm buff, which suffuses both areas. Plate XXIV, 



fig. 10 a, 6. 



