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A large number of eggs from these two pens was set, but from 

 pen D only five chicks were hatched; from pen H, ten. These 

 two lots of chicks were noted as differing both in down and in 

 first plumage in the following way: those with the Reeves's 

 father and ring-neck mother, pen D, were lighter-colored than 

 the birds of the reciprocal cross. No detailed observations were 

 made. On maturity this same difference was found to hold. 

 On comparing the adult specimens dorsal side up, there is at 

 once seen to be a constant difference involving all the feather 

 regions. In general, it may be said that in cross D the Reeves's 

 father transmitted to his hybrid offspring more of his own char- 

 acters than the female Reeves's transmitted to her offspring in 

 cross H. This is especially shown in the almost pure Reeves's 

 head pattern of cross D, and in the general lighter tone of the 

 whole upper parts and flanks. 



On the other hand, the stronger tail barring of Reeves's pheas- 

 ant, as contrasted with the ring-neck, has been transmitted to 

 cross H by the Reeves's hen, and has not been carried to the 

 same extent by the nude Reeves's in the other cross. 



The plate shows the difference, and needs no explanation. The 

 other differences are briefly as follows: 



Cross D, feathers of mantle with reduced and irregular black 



H, feathers of mantle with broad black band. 

 D, feathers of mantle tending to sub-terminal bar of buck- 

 thorn brown (Ridgway, 1912). 

 H, brown bar absent. 



D, general color of mantle more tawny and less dark than 

 in H. Back and rump much lighter than in H, with also an 

 entirely different feather pattern. Upper tail coverts lighter in 

 D than in H. Barring of tail reduced in D to basal third and 

 not heavy. In H, heavy barring of whole tail, becoming blotchy 



quills different in the two crosses; and tending to more rich 



