

HOUWINK’S EXPER. CONC. THE ORIGIN OF SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS 171 
Adults with Adults with Vermicula- Barred 
Locality vermicula- more or less ted chicks chicks 
tions only  barring 
Darjeeling (2) l 1 
Sikhim (7) 4 3 
_ Assam (5) 3. 2 
Burmah (7) 4 2 l 
Tongon (1) t 
Tenasserim (6) 2 2 1 I 
Yunnan (1) 1 
Annam (1) 1 
Cochinchina 2) , 2 
Malacca (6) 3 3 
Sumatra (1) | 
Java (1) l 
Philippines (10) 2 6 l l 
60 specimens 29 24 2 5 
We see from this list, that of 53 adult hens 29 are pure vermiculated 
while 24 are more or less barred, while of 7 chicks 5 are barred and 2 
are vermiculated. Analysing these results we find that: 
Of 7 localities only 1 specimen was present ; this was vermiculated in 
3, barred in 4 cases; as one specimen can of course be but vermiculated 
or barred, this result would be explained if at those localities barred 
and vermiculated birds occurred in equal numbers. 
Four localities are represented by 2 specimens; in three of these cases: 
Conchinchina, Umballa and North India, both were vermiculated, in 
the fourth: Darjeeling one was vermiculated, one barred. . 
Of 17 localities more than 2 specimens are present, and in all these 
cases vermiculated and barred specimens are represented. 
The only possible conclusion is that vermiculated and barred hens, 
both, are of frequent occurrence within the , species” Gallus bankiva. 
We do not think, that this would cause Mr. BEEBE any uneasiness ; 
he would probably declare all deviations in the Musea from the form, 
which he considers as the type of the species, to be hybrids with 
domestic poultry. 
On p 207 of his Vol. II BEEBE says: 
