366 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
crossbarred, none of them however so conspicuously as Mr. Hou- 
WINK’s original hen. The partridge colored bantam 191.4 © also shows 
this crossbarring, a little less distinct however than MR. HOUWINK’S 
,oankiva’’ does. 
The imported hen 201.2 © then, although quite bankivian in aspect, 
cannot be considered to be a pure bankiva, on account of its distinct though 
small wattles, and conspicuous serrated comb. 
What then can it be? 
Thereis.no doubt, that it cansvery we livpesam 
ordinary partridgecolored bantam and we would 
not hesitate to pronounce it to be such a one, if the possibility were 
excluded, that bekikko-hens, the cocks of which freyuently resemble 
bankiva-cocks, could resemble bankiva-hens, even in having no wattles 
and a serrated comb, the first derived from varius, the hen of which 
has no wattles, the latter from their domestic grandmother. Still, al- 
though this implies deception on the part of some one through whose 
hands the birds, received as bankiva’s have passed, —- we feel pretty 
sure that the hen received by Mr. HOUWINK as a bankiva, has been in 
reality a partridge colored bantam. 
Our reasons are that, as we shall see, among the descendants of the 
pair, sold to Mr. HOUWINK as bankiva’s, the following aberrations 
were observed: 
a) legfeathering on some hens 
b) light coloured hens 
c) hens with vermiculated and such with crossbarred secondaries. 
While all these aberrations were also found in a small flock of partridge- © 
colored bantams, consisting of 7 hens and one-cock, belonging to diffe- 
rent generations, but all descendents from a single pair, in the posses- 
sion of and bred by the senior author’s neighbour at NP 
Concluding then: 
There is no certainty about the real nature of the pair of birds, jena by 
MR. HOUWINK as bankiva’s, except in so far that they are not what they 
were thought to be. The evidence available points with a probability, ver- 
ging upon certainty, to the hen as an ordinary partridge colored bantam, 
while 1f the assurance given, that the birds have been imported from , Indie” 
can be trusted at least as far as the cock is concerned, the probability is 
that this cock was a segregate from the cross of a Malay game hen, with 
a varius-cock. | 
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