XIV POULTRY CULTURE 



PART III 



REPRODUCTION 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XXI. Types, Breeds, and Varieties of Fowls . -344 



Original type of the domestic fowl, 344 — Types of domestic 

 fowls, 346 — Game types, 347 — Aseel, 348 — English Game, 349 



— Cornish Indian, 350 — Malay, 351 — Laying types, 352 — Lay- 

 ing breeds, 353 — Mediterranean laying types, 354 — Italian stocks, 

 355 — Spanish section of Mediterranean class, 362 — Other races 

 of the Mediterranean type, 367 — Mid-European laying types, 368 



— Primitive crested types, 375 — European meat types, 376 — 

 English meat types, 377 — French and Belgian meat types, 380 



— The Asiatic meat type, 384 — Divisions of the Asiatic meat 

 type, 387 — General-purpose types, 394 — Earliest American 

 types, 397 — Origin of the Barred Plymouth Rock, 398 — The 

 Wyandottes, 406 — Rhode Island Reds, 413 — The Orping- 

 tons, 416 — Continental European general-purpose types, 423 — 

 Deformed types, 424 — Bantams, 425 



XXIL Turkeys, Peafowls, Guineas, and Pheasants 429 



Turkeys, 429 — Peafowls, 436 — Guineas — Pheasants, 437 



XXIIL Types and Breeds of Ducks . . . . . 438 



The common wild duck, 438 — Common domestic ducks — Im- 

 proved races of ducks — Meat types, 439 — Laying-type ducks, 

 447 — Common ornamental ducks, 448 



XXIV. Geese and Swans .... . ... 449 



Economic races of geese — Common geese, 449 — Improved 

 breeds of geese, 451 — Asiatic types of geese, 453 — The American 

 Wild Goose, 457 — Ornamental geese — Swans, 458 



XXV. Phenomena and Principles of Breeding . . . 459 



Kinds of reproduction — Likeness in ase.\ual reproduction — 

 Relations of body and germ, 459 — Beginning of variation — The 

 function of sex, 461 — Likeness in sexual reproduction, 462 — 

 Relation of sex to inheritance, 463 — Prepotency, 464 — Pre- 

 potency and selection — Transmission of prepotency, 466 — 

 Present and latent characters — Alternate inheritance, reversion, 

 and atavism, 467 — Laws of heredity — Galton's law, 468 — 

 Mendel's law, 469 — Correlation of characters, 471 



