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INHERITANCE OF CHARACTERISTICS IN DOMESTIC FOWL. 

 C. RESULTS OF HYBRIDIZATION. 



We have next to consider the nature of the inheritance when one 

 parent belongs to an unbooted race, the other to a booted one (table 33). 



Table 33. — Distribution of boot-grades in the F^ generation of booted X norv-booted parents. 



An inspection of Table 33, which gives the distribution of grades of 

 boot in the offspring constituting the first hybrid generation, might well 

 lead to the conclusion that inheritance is here of a blending nature, or that, 

 if either condition is dominant, it is the booted one, as suggested in my 



