256 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
The F females 
At the time of writing we have before us: 
391.1 © stuffed, was sent to Mook in 1921 and in 1923 to the senior 
author, died Nov. 19 1923. 
391.6 ©, stuffed, died 17 Nov. 1921. 
391.8 9, stuffed, died 1921. 
391.9 9, stuffed, died 1921. 
391.12 2, stuffed, died 1921. 
391.16 © was sent to Mook in 1921, to the senior author in 1923, still 
alive Jan. 2. 1924. 
391.18 2 was sent to Mook in 1921, to the senior author in 1923, still 
alive Jan. 2. 1924. a 
604. 4 © stuffed, was sent to Mook in 1921, died Febr. 1922. 
Examination of these hens reveals, starting from the 6 stuffed ones, 
the following facts; | 
391.8 and 391.9 contain, as the margins of the neck-feathers show, 
the silverfactor S, the other four are golden. 
Of these latter 397.6 is characterized by an almost white breast and 
belly, while 391.12, as well as (of the silver ones) 397.9, has the ventral 
surface , washed out’ e. g. a considerable amount of white in the fea- 
thers on those parts, but still remnants of the brown and of the black. 
391.1 and 604.4 are very dark birds, 604.4 especially, which almost 
looks as if an ordinary partridge colored hen were wrapped in a very 
thin, transparent, sheet of black. 
391.1, 391.9, and 604.4 show no gular wattles in the stuffed condi- 
tion, so that these must anyhow have been very small in the living 
birds, if they were present at all. 
As to the secondaries, those of 391.6 and 391.9 are very conspicuously 
crossbarred, those of 397.1 and 391.12 distinctly so, but not so much, 
while those of 391.8 and 603.4 are vermiculated only. 
A crossbarring of the secondaries, so distinct as that of 391.9, occurs 
among wild species of Gallus, only on the hens of Gallus furcatus and 
Gallus lafayetti. It seems to us to be evidence of the presence of furcatus- 
blood vn our bankantams, and, as similar markings can be seen on some 
ordinary partridge bantams, in our domestic poultry too. 
We feel the more confident, that this is the right explanation for 
the following two reasons. Ten 
