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sic case of the combs of fowls. If a bird with a 

 rose comb is bred to one with a pea comb (fig. 

 23), the offspring have a comb different from 

 either. It is called a walnut comb. If two 

 such individuals are bred they give 9 walnut, 



P'iG. :23. Cross between ]iea and rose combed fowls. (Charts 

 of Banr and GoUlsehinidt.) 



3 rose, 3 j^ea, 1 single. This jjroportion shows 

 that the grandparental tyj)es differed in re- 

 spect to two pairs of characters. 



A fourth case is showzi in tlie fruit fly, where 

 an ebony fly with long wings is mated to a grey 

 fly with vestigial wings (fig. 24<) . The off- 



