HOUWINK'S EXPER. CONC. THE ORIGIN OF SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS 371 
Of the 14 chicks of this generation, the following were recorded as 
legfeathered: | 
503.3 (faintly) 503.9; 503.11; 503.12 so that but 4 had feathered legs 
against 10 clean legs. 
Subsequent examination of the stuffed material however, showed 
that leg-feathering had occurred earlier already, but had been over- 
looked, as it is often present ina reduced form only, so that we should 
not like to lay much stress on the proportion recorded above. 
It was then found that the following stuffed chicks still present, 
had distinct legfeathering or traces of it, usually rather high up on the 
shanks 
F,205.4 ex 201.62 x 201.12 6 
207-7 \ ox 201.5 9 x 201.20 4 
207.9 f ; 
DOTE LOI 9, Oe NL rd 
208.8 
AIO mex 20 MO 201 Zed 
All these chicks died young, and as not all chicks born were pre- 
served, it is impossible to say in which proportion leg-feathering appea- 
reden. ES. 
In all cases observed, the leg-feathering was confined to the shanks 
and did not reach to the base of the outermost digit. It was consequent- 
ly of the same kind as that observed by PUNNETT (Heredity in Poultry 
p. 180) in crosses of Game bantams with clean-legged strains, in which 
it occasionally turns up. Of the mode of inheritance of this kind of leg- 
feathering as yet very little is known and we are unable to add more 
to this very limited knowledge than that the only bird with legfeathe- 
ring 503.12 Q which reached adult age, mated with her clean-legged 
brother 503.10 &, gave 3 chicks recorded as clean-legged. No cock with 
leg-feathering was obtained while inbreeding the „bankiva’s’' of MR. 
HOUWINK, and the only other cases recorded are two descendants of 
the „bankiva” x Sonnerat-cross e. g. 633.3 2 and a one day chick of 
unknown sex 276 without decimal number. 
Further aberrations observed were two hens 209.3 and 209.4 with the 
black very much reduced, it being present only on the neckfeathers, and 
on part of the wing-and tailfeathers ; all the same the mottled appearance 
of the black remains, but the animals have a washed out appearance. , 
Both animals have serrated combs and small but distinct wattles. 
