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apparent results. So that any conclusions which one may have permitted 
one-self to reach, by an examination of these skins of pheasant hybrids, 
can only be regarded as merely tentative and provisional, and of value 
only as indicating the nature of the further problems which these 
preliminary experiments in hybridisation have opened out. They will 
serve to suggest the lines along which further research may be most 
advantageously continued. 
In making the examination of the skins, I confined my attention 
to three restricted areas of the plumage of the male, leaving the 
female plumage for subsequent examination. These areas are: (1) 
The Interscapular Feathers: (2) The Primaries and Secondaries of 
the Wings: (3) The two Central Rectrices (one right, one left) of 
the Tail. 
The chief effects of the various crosses appear to be as follows: 
(1) The Interscapular Plumage. The first hybrid generation 
derived from Silver 2 x Swinhoe 43, does not give uniform results. 
I purpose dealing with the interesting details of the polymorphism of 
the F, generation in a subsequent and detailed paper. But one of 
the most interesting features of this generation is that it appears to 
manifest a translocation of a plumage character not only from the 
female sex of one of the parental species to the opposite sex of the 
hybrid, but from one body region of the female of the species to 
another body region of the opposite sex of the hybrid. The trans- 
mission of the female plumage of one region to the same region in 
the male of the same race or sub-breed of the same species, is a 
well known phenomenon. But as far as I know the result I have 
just described is new. It is, however, necessary to say that the 
hybrid character is not identical with the species character with which 
it is compared and that there is an alternative interpretation; but I 
am afraid I have not space to here enter into details. The features 
shown by this generation also suggest that not only does the male of 
a species transmit some of the secondary sexual characters of the 
female of his species, but that the female of a species may transmit 
those of the male.?) | 
The second hybrid generation (F, hybrid $ x Silver species 2) 
is not uniform. The same sort of translocation as that described in 
1) In this particular case it was the male of one parental species which 
was concerned, while the female was of the other parental species. 
