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in which the leg-feathering is slight, may give offspring in which the 

 legs are strongly feathered (cf p. 209). 



The experiments of which an account is given above form part of a 

 series of investigations on heredity in poultry for which the means 

 have been provided out of the Fund controlled by the Development 

 Commission, 



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