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bred together, produced blacks (25 per cent.), 

 duns (50 per cent.), and light duns (25 per 

 cent.), among each kind of which there were 

 horned cattle (25 per cent.), hornless masque- 

 raders (50 per cent.), and hornless cattle (25 per 

 cent). That is to say, among sixteen cattle 

 any number might be taken the chances were 

 that there were 4 blacks (i horned, 2 hornless 

 masqueraders, and i hornless), 8 duns (2 horned, 

 4 hornless masqueraders, and 2 hornless), and 

 4 light duns (i horned, 2 hornless masque- 

 raders, and i hornless). 



Again, when the first crosses the dun horn- 

 less masqueraders were bred with the natives, 

 there were produced, blacks (50 per cent.) and 

 duns (50 per cent.), among each kind of which 

 there were horned (50 per cent.) and masquerading 

 cattle (50 per cent.). Thus, if farmers had a pre- 

 dilection for either of the two new productions 

 the black hornless or the light dun horned 

 they had merely to keep on breeding from these, 

 and, in time, they would have nothing else. 

 There being no deception about the colours, it 

 is easy to see how the whity-grey or light dun 

 vanished long ago, and the dun lingered on a 

 while longer, while the hornless masqueraders, 

 a gradually decreasing number, kept the horns 

 bobbing up till comparatively recent times. 



The blackish-brown cattle, the " foundlings " 

 as we have called them, the date of whose 



