xiv POULTRY CULTURE 



PART III 



REPRODUCTION 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XXI. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS . . . . 344 



Original type of the domestic fowl, 344 Types of domestic 

 fowls, 346 Game types, 347 Aseel, 348 English Game, 349 



Cornish Indian, 350 Malay, 351 Laying types, 352 Lay- 

 ing breeds, 353 Mediterranean laying types, 3 54 Italian stocks, 

 355 Spanish section of Mediterranean class, 362 Other races 

 of the Mediterranean type, 367 Mid-European laying types, 368 



Primitive crested types, 375 European meat types, 376 

 English meat types, 377 French and Belgian meat types, 380 



The Asiatic meat type, 384 Divisions of the Asiatic meat 

 type, 387 General-purpose types, 394 Earliest American 

 types, 397 Origin of the Barred Plymouth Rock, 398 The 

 Wyandottes, 406 Rhode Island Reds, 413 The Orping- 

 tons, 416 Continental European general-purpose types, 423 

 Deformed types, 424 Bantams, 425 



XXII. TURKEYS, PEAFOWLS, GUINEAS, AND PHEASANTS . . 429 

 Turkeys, 429 Peafowls, 436 Guineas Pheasants, 437 



XXIII. TYPES AND BREEDS OF DUCKS 438 



The common wild duck, 438 Common domestic ducks Im- 

 proved races of ducks Meat types, 439 Laying-type ducks, 

 447 Common ornamental ducks, 448 



XXIV. GEESE AND SWANS .: . . . . . 449 



Economic races of geese Common geese, 449 Improved 

 breeds of geese, 451 Asiatictypes of geese, 453 The American 

 Wild Goose, 457 Ornamental geese Swans, 458 



XXV. PHENOMENA AND PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING .... 459 



Kinds of reproduction Likeness in asexual reproduction 

 Relations of body and germ, 459 Beginning of variation The 

 function of sex, 461 Likeness in sexual reproduction, 462 

 Relation of sex to inheritance, 463 Prepotency, 464 Pre- 

 potency and selection Transmission of prepotency, 466 

 Present and latent characters Alternate inheritance, reversion, 

 and atavism, 467 Laws of heredity Gallon's law, 468 

 Mendel's law, 469 Correlation of characters, 471 



