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Type III.— White cross-bred tumbler fantail. No coloured feathers. 
Typr [VY.—White bird splashed with red feathers on the neck and 
back. 
Type V.—Another splashed bird showing a black feather at the root 
of the tail. 
Tyre VI.—Bird with much red on neck, breast, back, and wing 
coverts. Also bluish tinge on the back. Patches of blue feathers very 
clearly seen at the root of the tail and on the right thigh. 
Type VII.—Much colour as in Type VI., but many of the red and 
blue feathers, especially on the back, are heavily chequered with black. 
Type VIII.—White bird splashed with reddish feathers chequered 
with black on the back. Also shows one blue tail feather with indications 
of a terminal black bar. 
TABLE SHOWING RESULTS OF THE MATINGS. 
(Types of Offspring.) 
Generation 
as : : = 
of parent: | Type of parent | AC agening Type III | Ee aM | Type VI Type VII | Type VIII 
Pure | Landi. fF, 6 3 0 0 0 
F, | IV. and V. | F, Ear en 2 h 230 | 0 
Be | Vv. jet ea aed EE a (SR doen 1 0 
eee tteand Ve Ber oy a | Oran 0 | 1 
Series II. 
SKINS SHOWING RESULTS OF CROSSING BLACK BARBS WITH WHITE 
FANTAILS (EXPERIMENTS STILL IN PROGRESS). 
Original birds used : 
White Fantails (see skin in Series I.). 
Black Barbs.— Plumage black, no white feathers. (No skin available, 
as birds still being used in experiments.) 
Original Matings.—(a) White fantail 2 x black barb ¢ ; (b) black 
barb @ x white fantail ¢. Both the barbs and the fantails used in 
original crosses were obtained from different sources. 
F’, Generation.—From mating (a) five birds. Black with few white 
feathers (Skin I.) From mating (b) four birds. Black with few white 
feathers (Skin II.). 
Matings of F, Birds together—(c) 2 and ¢ from mating (a); 
(d) 2 and ¢ from mating (db) (two years); (e) 2 from mating (a) ¢ from 
mating (5). 
F’, Generation. 
Blacks with | “Blues ” with 
Whites with | 
Matings Blacks few white “Blues” | few white Reds few coloured | Whites 
feathers | feathers | feathers 
c 0 “ion 2 ia 0 1 
d eee 6 tee 0, 0 5 | 2 3 
e 1 4 tt 0 0 2 | aro 
Totals 5 Hes 5, la laa ne 6 
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