* BARRED-SPLASKED MALE 



Kansas 147E. Four kinds of offspring were produced from the male shown in Fig. 1 1 and the 

 Female shown in Fig. 12: Barred splashed males; barred blue males, non-barred splashed 

 females, and non-barred blue females. (Fig. 13.) 



trace thi.s condition to any particular 

 racial ancestor. 



A family of White Wyandottes has 

 recently come under my observation 

 which is interesting from the standpoint 

 of purity of breeding. Members of this 

 family have repeatedly won prizes in 

 the larger shows of Kansas and Mis- 

 souri and also at the Panama Exposi- 

 tion show, which was one of the largest 

 ever held in this country. As a result 

 they have been held in considerable es- 



teem by Wyandotte breeders of the 

 Southwest. 



By way of explanation it may be said 

 that the white of the White Wyandotte 

 is recessive, as noted by Sturtevant,"' 

 probably being in the first place a white 

 mutation from the pigmented Silver 

 Wyandotte. The Silver Wyandotte is 

 credited by Brown" as having been the 

 product of crosses between the Se- 

 bright Bantam, from which it inherited 

 its color, the Cochin and Hamburg, and 

 possibly others. 



^'Journal of Experimental Zoology, vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 499-518. 



•■•"Races of Domestic Poultry," published by Edward Arnold, London. 1906, pp. 155-16.^ 



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