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HOUWINK’S EXPER. CONC. THE ORIGIN OF SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS 363 
breasted race of so called English game, closely related to the Malay’s, 
and that BEEBE states that for the production of | bekissars”’ e. g. 
hybrids between domestic hens and Gallus varius-cocks preferably the 
red (e. g. brown breasted) and creamcolored Malay game is used as a hen. 
Considering the frequency of , reversion’’, in the second-generation of 
the cross Malay game x varius, to birds strongly resembling bankiva’s, 
considering furthermore, that the most unbankivian characters present on 
the original cock of MR. HOUWINK and in its progreny: spangling '), 
brownish (buff) breast, and yellow legs are all present within the group of 
game-birds, and that a dominant white Malay-game, such as are used 
to produce white bekissar’s may cryptomerously be spangled, brown 
breasted and have yellow legs, it is by no means impossible that the cock 
received by MR. HOUWINK as a bankiva has in reality been a segregate 
from across between a Malay-game hen and a varius-cock, and that some 
smart native, having got an order for junglefowl, considered his ease 
and preferred to take the worthless and therefore easily obtained 
bekikko’s”’ from his village, above the trouble of catching the jungle- 
fowl in the wood and pass these bekikko’s to the unsuspecting euro- 
pean, who acted as agent to Mr. HOUWINK, as real junglefowl. 
This possibility even becomes a probability by the appearance of the 
only, conspicuously aberrant, cock 208.4 4 of the F, from the cross 
201.99 x 201.19 32), the latter being, as was mentioned above sub. 
2, one of the most bankiva-like cocks obtained from the original pair 
of birds. | 
This cock plainly shows the presence of varius blood by: 
a) the blunted shape of the tip of most of its hackle-feathers 
b) the very broad black median part of these feathers 
1) Possibly the spangling may even have been derived directly from varius, 
as BEEBE says that the „neutral plumage of young varius birds is reddish brown 
mottled and spotted with black”. 
2) In the list this 201.19 { is marked as a CA animal. The reason for this 
follows. Mr. HouwiNK had given order to pair the imported hen, again with 
the sonnerat-cock 195.1 and the animals to be borne from this cross had to be 
marked CA, C at that time meaning Sonnerat, A bankiva. In 1916 some chickens 
were born from the hen, paired to the Sonnerat-cock of which 4 cocks surrived, 
which were marked CA 5; CA 7; CA 11 and CA 3. As they grew up, it became 
evident that they were no Sonnerat-hybrids, but evidently the product of the 
 bankiva-cock with which the hen had run before she was put to the Sonnerat- 
cock, so they received the bankiva-number 201 and CA 7 became 201012. 

