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pai'ticular resemble tlie pure ones."* Mulatto's hybrid 

 Romulus might hence have been the image of his gaudily- 

 painted sire Matopo. It is even conceivable Romulus 

 might have closely resembled his almost jet-black dam. 



When hybrids or cross-bred offspring are identical or 

 nearly identical with the first sire, the " infected " sub- 

 sequent offspring (telegony being taken for granted) might 

 also resemble the first sire. I say might advisedly, because 



Fig. 40. 



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Mulatto. 



if the second sire happened to be distinctly inbred, or for 

 some other reason extremely prepotent, the influence of 

 the dam, 'plus the influence of the first sire, might be com- 

 pletel}' overcome, with the result that the subsequent 

 progeny would very closely resemble the second sire. 



It thus appears that the further the telegony problem is 



* From a letter by the Rev. John Gillespie, LL.D., president of the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society, the Field, January 1st, 1898. 



