Wilson — The Inheritance of Coat Colour in Horses. 339 



The explanation seems rather to lie in the error of misdescription ; and 

 the point will be brought out by an examination of the table on the three 

 following pages, which shows the results of the matings of a number of 

 individual sires with mares of their own and the other four colours. The 

 Thoroughbreds are taken from volume xix. of the stud-book, the Shires from 

 volumes i. to x., and the Clydesdales from volumes i. to xxxi. Among the 

 Thoroughbreds the foals entered as " bay or brown " are given under the 

 bays and enclosed within brackets, tliose entered as " black or brown " under 

 the browns. The probability is that many bays are browns and browns 

 bays — the wish to have them one or other occasioning some doubt — and most, 

 if not all, of the thoroughbred " blacks or browns " are really browns. The 

 registered colour of every sire is given, and, where it has been obtained, the 

 corrected colour is noted below. At the same time the probable gametic 

 composition of the sire is indicated. 



On looking at the oases of Florizel II., Baron's Pride, and Baron of 

 Buchlyvie, whose colours, according to authorities, are not those given in the 

 stud-books, the effect of a misdescription in weighting one colour at the 

 expense of another will be seen. 



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