244 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
The F, cock 276.3 is almost a pure bankiva; there is no trace of any 
Sonnerat-influence, the brown between the breast and belly is entirely ab- 
sent, the whole under surface is almost pure black. Possibly some varius- 
ancestor is responsible for the black median stripes of the hackles and 
the violet gloss of the greater wingcoverts; the tail is green. 
The F, cock 276.7 Fig. 3 Pl. III, fig. 6 Pl. Vis of quite a different type ; 
it comes, as the colored plate shows, very near to a golden duckwing. 
Of this type BALDAMUs gives the following description: 
Golden Duckwing. Face and earlappets scarlet red „legs greyish green 
or greyish yellow. Feathers of the cock: hackles straw-yellow, feathers 
of the saddle slightly darker, copper-yellow; back marroon, shining; 
upper wingcoverts (shoulder) orange yellow, lower wingcoverts blue- 
black, primaries black with a white seam on the outer half, secondaries 
on the outside white, on the inside and at the point black, so that the 
closed wing looks white with a black upper border; breast, belly and 
tighs deep-black, the tail with a beautiful bronze shine. 
The golden duckwing obtained from the Sonnerat cross consequently 
differs from the standard only by the presence of some brown on the 
ventral surface and by the presence of a black median stripe on the 
hackle-feathers, while, as the photo fig 6 Pl. V shows, the comb is 
slightly Sonneratian and, in a certain light, rudiments of Sonnera- 
tian waxy tips can be seen on the upper hackles of the neck. 
The F, cock 276.11 on the other hand, comes very near to a bankiva 
or to ared black bantam; there is no trace of a brown zone between 
breast and belly, the whole ventral surface is practically black. The 
violet gloss of the wing coverts as well as the black median stripe of the 
hackles, may possibly be due to some varius-ancestor, while the 
greenish sheen of the tail may be due to Sonnerat. As a whole however, 
the animal could pass muster as a red black bantam. 
The F, hens 
A glance at the genealogy on p 241 shows us, that the following F, 
hens are available for comparison: 
206.2; 276.8; 276.9; 276.12; 276.13, 276.14, 276.23 to which 
a 4month’s oldchick: 276.5 may be added, all of these, with the excep- 
tion of the latter and of 276.14 being alive. 
206.2 9, (Photo PI. V, fig. 7 and Pl. IX fig. 7) still alive, has a large 
