1908.] 



INHERITANCE OF COLOUR IN PIGEONS. 



97 



No. 5. A few feathers tinged red on the right scapular region. 



This bird changed slightly during the moult. It then had 



four blackish tinged feathers on the right scapular region, 



tlie red colour having disappeared. 

 No. 7. Also had a few feathers tinged red on the scapular 



region. 



Table VI. 



F. 2 Generation. 



Exp. 44. — F. 1 White with few coloured feathers $ 5 



X F. 1 White with few coloured feathers S !• 



These birds, raised in Exp. 43, are described above. Ten young 

 were produced, of which four were white, and six showed some 

 coloured feathers. These latter were divisible into two groups : 

 one, of which there were four birds produced, was white with a 

 few coloured feathers as in the F. 1 generation ; the other, of 

 which two birds were produced, was of the tricolor type, 

 previously described. Of the whites with a few coloured feathers, 

 No. 13 had one feather showing both red and black on the right 

 scapular, and one black feather on the rump. 



No. 14 had two black feathers on the neck and one on the back. 



No. 15 had two red feathers on the neck and three on the right 

 scapulars. 



No. 18 had several red feathers on the scapulars. 



The details of the two birds recoi-ded as tricolors (Nos. 7 and 8) 

 coincide very closely with the description of the type already 

 given. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1908, No. VII. 7 



