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BARRED BLUE MALE 



Barred Blue Male (Kansas 98E). Second of the four kinds of offspring produced, (see Fig. 



13.) (Fig. 14.) 



For some years occasional single 

 comb segregates have been noticed in 

 this family, two of which are shown in 

 Fig. 10. Possibly this has come down 

 from some of the breed's Cochin an- 

 cestors. 



It was not, however, until several 

 females from this family were crossed 

 with males carrying black pigment dur- 

 ing the 1918 breeding season that it was 

 discovered that the family also carried 

 the factor which, acting on black pig- 

 ment, renders it bluish-grey in appear- 

 ance as in the Blue Andalusian, and 

 also the sex-linked factor for barring 

 as found in the Barred Plymouth Rock 



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and White Leghorn. Several indivi- 

 duals were found which carried the 

 "blue" factor and one (Legband 2031), 

 whose likeness is shown in Fig. 12, car- 

 ried factors for both "blue" and bar- 

 ring. Several were also found which 

 carried neither factor. Although as 

 noted above, this family is more or less 

 heterozygous in respect to comb, this 

 particular individual's breeding be- 

 havior showed her to be homozygous 

 for the comb character. 



When mated with a Splashed Anda- 

 lusian male (57M, Fig. 11) this female 

 produced four kinds of offspring with 

 regard to color. These were (1) barred 



