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experiments, we had occasion to mate together several pairs of white Fantails 

 and black Barbs ; they bred freely, and the young, when mated together, bred 

 with equal fertility. It may be stated that the colour of the produce of these 

 crosses generally was influenced most strongly by the male bird : a white Fantail 

 cock with black Barb hen gave us birds purely white. On the other hand, black 

 Barb cocks with white Fantail hens always produced broods with more or less 

 colour, varying from pure black or dark-pied birds to such as were slatey in 

 colour ; and the mongrels when mated followed the same rule. 



