170 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
d) whether any cocks have violet instead of green gloss on tail or 
wing 
Answer: 24 violet, 42 green. 
As we had noticed crossbars on the wings of the hen 201.2 ¢ (the one 
bought by Mr. HOUWINK) and also on some bankiva’s present in the 
Leyden Museum, we again applied to Mr. Lowe’s courtesy, sending 
him a secondary of a crossbarred and one ofa vermiculated descendent 
of the imported bankiva’s and begging him to see whether all birds in 
the British Museum really were only „vermiculated’ as BEEBE states 
to be the case in British India. The reply was, after BEEBE’S positive 
statement, surprising ; Mr. Lowe writes: 
„I have been through our female examples of Gallus bankiva, noting 
fn which had pure vermiculated secondaries and in which there 
was barring or indication of barring as also from what locality each 
sample came. I send you a list which I trust will resolve your doubts. 
(These doubts refer to our communication that we suspected a conta- 
mination of Mr. HouwiINK’s bankiva’s with varius- blood, varius ha- 
ving crossbarred wings). I have also examined chicks in down from the 
same point of view and I also send you a list of those, showing locali- 
ties from which they came. 
It is to be noted that no single one of the adult females examined 
showed such marked or clear barring as the feather you enclosed. In 
some it could only be said to be indicated. The most marked example 
came from Sumatra. 
I had rather hoped, when I began, that the two categories (vermicu- 
lated and barred) would segregate geographically but they do not; for 
instance of two chicks from Cebu in the Philippines one is barred the 
other vermiculated”’. 
The list, so kindly supplied by Mr. Lowe, has been arranged by us as _ 
follows: 
Adults with Adults with Vermicula- Barred 
Locality vermicula- moreorless ted chicks chicks 
tions only barring | 
Umballa (2) 2 
Oudh (1) 1 
North India (2) 2 
Central India (1) l 
Nepal (4) l 2 l 



