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recognised the difficulty of getting this variety to 

 breed true. Of a slaty blue colour itself with 

 darker hackles and with black lacing on the 



Sinensis X Stellata 



Intermediate p 



I I I 1 

 Sinensis Inter. Inter. Stellata F 2 



Sinensis sin. Int. Int. stell. Stellata F 3 



Sinensis Stellata- - - -F 4 



feathers of the breast, it always throws " wasters " 

 of two kinds, viz. blacks, and whites splashed with 

 black. Careful breeding from the blues shows that 

 the three sorts are always produced in the same 



Blue X Blue 



Black Blue X Blue White 



Black Black Blue Blue White White 



Black X White 



Blue 

 (all) 



definite proportions, viz. one black, two blues, one 

 splashed white. This at once suggests that the 

 black and the splashed white are the two homozy- 

 gous forms, and that the blues are heterozygous, i.e. 



F 



