268 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
a blue-bronze neck, of which every feather was rounded as in varius and 
bordered with black, and an enormous black cock kept by a Chinese 
carpenter, that had the blue comb and median wattle of varius. 
In Ketanggoean West we saw two broods of chicks, whose father 
was a reddish Bekisar with bluish wings, median wattle and unserrated 
comb. This Bekisar (there were two males) was bred from a buff ban- 
tam male and a female Gallus varius. 
Charcoal-burners often take a few hens with them into the jungle, 
where they mate with varius males, and produce Bekisars. They claim 
that hen Bekisars, which have no value commercially, are fertile with 
wild males, and a certain number of the apparently pure Gallus varius 
offered for sale on Java are assuredly produced by a sort of , grading”’ 
process, a repeated back-crossing to varius-males. If questioned as to 
the origin of the tame chickens, the natives of Java will declare Gallus 
varius to be the wild progenitor of all tame breeds. Although this is un- 
doubtedly untrue, it is certain that a great many characters common to 
varius are quite common in the kampong chickens of that island, such as 
a single median wattle, unserrated comb, blue and yellow tinge of the comb, 
round hackles.”’ 
Let us now consider the results of MR. HOUWINK’S crosses. 
The F, generation of bankantam 2 x Temminckii à. 
Of this generation we have before us the males: 
211.1 & stuffed 211.10 & stuffed 
IS 1 21 Acs sas 
sf 211.14 ga photo and incom- 
211.306 
plete feather chart 
211.7 4 a photo and an incomplete feather 
chart / 211.15 & stuffed 
There is no doubt that segregation took place in this , F,’”’ as could be 
expected because the father was itself a hybrid. 
Three types can at once be distinguished. 
ad. a type very near to bankiva 211.1 «PI. VIII; 2113502 058 
ZOZ API 
b. a type chiefly bankivian but with distinct varius-influencein the 
collar, which is here differentiated into two zones as in the case 
of Temminckii, the zones however being much more bankivian 
