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KNOWLEDGE. 



November, 1913. 



Table 77. 



Results of Mating 2 Buff Hens, 1910-11, and White 



Cocks, 1910-11, all Second Generation From 



White Hen Sport. 



Table 78. 



Results of Mating 4 Buff Hens, 1910-11, and White 



Cocks, 1910-11, all Second Generation from White 



Hen Sport except the Hen in Pair IV. 



Table 79. 



Results of Mating 2 Buff Hens (closely related 

 to the White Sport, one being One Year older 

 and one being One Year younger, but not directly 

 descended from her, both having ancestors in 

 common and both being descended from the Pale 

 Buff Cock mentioned in the Note (Table 72), to 

 White Cocks, 1910-11. 



Note. — I mated these two buff hens to white cocks as I knew 

 they were both related to the White Sport, and I thought, for 

 several reasons, that they might carry white blood. Evidently, 

 the white blood must have been in the strain several years before 

 the White Sport was hatched. No more whites have appeared in 

 that aviary, but they have not tried for them systematically. I 

 have other old hens related to the White Sport, which I am mating 

 this year to White Cocks, to see if perhaps they will prove to be 

 hybrid from their breeding results. 



Table 80. 



Results of Mating Jonque Cinnamon Hen and White 



Cock. 



Unrelated. 



All my birds (and also Miss Lee's) are buff, being 

 bred from buff cocks and buff hens, except the 

 progeny from the jonque cinnamon hen (see Table 

 80) from which bird I have one jonque green hen, 

 to be mated this year (with the other young of the 

 cinnamon hen) with a white cock. This cinnamon 

 I bought, and it is quite unrelated to my other stock. 

 The clear buff hen in the cinnamon's first nest was 

 extremely pale (quite white in patches) in its nest 

 feathers, and has remained extremely pale, as have 

 also the two young clear buff cocks in her second 

 nest ; thev are quite as pale as any of my buff 

 birds bred from clear buff hens and white cocks, 

 and much paler than many of them. This is re- 



markable as the basis of cinnamon colouring is green. 



All my white birds have black eyes, not pink as 

 one might imagine they would have, and they are 

 very strong and hardy, being bred and reared out of 

 doors and living in an open out-door aviary all the 

 year round. 



In their case their white plumage does not seem 

 to make them delicate. 



Altogether I think the experiment has been most 

 successful, as I have established my race of white 

 canaries breeding true to colour, and apparently the 

 colours yellow and white obey the Mendelian laws, 

 producing dominants, impure dominants (or hybrids) 

 and recessives. 





