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animals. These are bred as shown in the following 

 table : — 



From this unsatisfactorily brief analysis one learns 

 that two short-haired goats may throw long-haired 

 animals ; but two long hairs have not in the cases in- 

 vestigated thrown short hairs. It should be added 

 that recent conversations with breeders have led the 

 writer to gather that in some of the Swiss breeds the 

 pure-bred males are sometimes long-haired in the 

 Summer and Winter coats, while the females are 

 always short-haired or at most have merely a dorsal 

 fringe of long hair in the Winter coat. The accom- 

 panying photographs of pairs of pure Toggenburgs 

 and Saanens show animals with this sexual differen- 

 tiation. 



When Oriental blood was introduced into British 

 stock, among other things there was also introduced 

 the totally pendulous or " drop "ear. In view of the 

 originally erroneous conclusions arrived at from the 

 analysis of insufficient data, it is unsafe to be too sure 

 that the very scanty details available on the heredity 



