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INHERITANCE. 



Chap. XIIL 



crossed plants of Tropaeolum, Cereus, Datura, and Lathyrus 



— ^-ous. As > however, these plants are hybrids of 



are all analog 

 the first g 



their buds after 



time 



resemble their parents and not their grandparents these 



come to 



do 



at first appear to come under the law of 



the ordinary sense of the word 

 effected through a succession 

 plant, they may be thus included 



aevertheless, as the cha 

 of bud-generations on the 



m 



^ r 



same 



Analogous facts have be 



and 



more remarkable, as they 



observed in the animal kingd 



individual, and not as with plants through a 



bud-generations. 



be so designated, does not 



ctly in the 



With animals the 



of 



of reversion, if 



pass 



a 



generation, but 



merely over the early stages of growth in the same individual 

 For instance, I crossed several white hens with a black cock, and 

 many of the chickens were during the first year perfectly white, 



but acquired during 



second year black feathers: on the 



first black 

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other hand, some of the chickens which were at 

 became during the second year piebald with white 

 breeder 22 says, that a Pencilled Brahma hen which has any of 

 the blood of the Light Brahma in her, will " occasionally pi 

 duce a pullet well pencilled during the first year, but she w 



most likely moult br 



the shoulders and become quite 



unlike her original colours in the second year." The same thing 

 occurs with Light Brahmas if of impure blood. I have observed 



xactly similar 



coloured 



with the crossed offspring from differently 



pi 



But her 



is a mor 



kable fact : I 



crossed a turbit, which has a frill formed by the feathers bei 

 reversed on its breast, with a trumpeter ; and one of the you 



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pigeons thus raised showed at first n 

 after moulting thrice, a small yet 



appeared on its br 

 from a red cow 

 red bull, are not 

 black. 



In the foregoii 



5 of the frill, but, 

 ably distinct frill 



it. According to Girou, 23 calves produced 

 i black bull, or from a black cow by a 

 ely born red, and subsequently, become 



characters which appear with 



advancing age are the result of a cross in the previous or 



22 Mr. Teebay, in ' The Poultry Book/ by Mr. Tegetmeier,' 1866, p. 72 



23 Quoted by Hofacker, ' Ueber die Eigenschaften/ &c., s. 98. 



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