The Making of Species 
the father in being rough-coated, but after the 
mother in being pigmented and short - haired. 
This form of inheritance is usually seen only in 
crosses between two types which differ in but 
few of their characters. 
III. The offspring may display a blend of the 
characters of the two parents. They may be 
intermediate in type. They are not of necessity 
midway between the two parents; one of the 
parents may be prepotent. The crosses between 
the horse and the ass show this well. Both the 
mule, where the ass is the sire, and the hinny, 
where the horse is the sire, are more like the ass 
than like the horse; but the hinny is less ass- 
like than the mule. The offspring between a 
European and a native of India furnishes a 
good case of blended inheritance ; Eurasians are 
neither so dark as the Asiatic nor so fair as the 
European. 
IV. The offspring may show a peculiarity of 
one parent in some parts of the body and the 
peculiarity of the other parent in other parts of 
the body. This is known as particulate inherit- 
ance. The piebald foal, which is the result of a 
cross between a black sire and a white mare, is a 
good example of such inheritance. This does 
not appear to be a common form of inheritance. 
V. The usual kind of inheritance is perhaps 
a combination between the forms II. and III. 
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