270 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
Of the backcross F, 197.2 2 X 196.2 g only chicks 616.1 —6 are available, 
all of which are cross-barred on their juvenile plumage; 616.1 which had 
just begun to develop adult plumage looks, as if it might have develop- 
ped a somewhat varius-like collar. 
Gallus aeneus (Bekissar or bronce-fowl). 
Mr. Hovwink obtained a cock of this hybrid between some domestic 
strain of poultry and a varius-male from the Zoological gardens at 
Amsterdam. 
The cock, a very large animal; which got the number 263.1 (Pl. VIII) 
lies now before me in a stuffed condition. Its comb is very simi- 
lar to the one of our Gallus Temminckii, the large indentation which 
makes it mussel-shaped is here also on the right side. The comb is al- 
most entire, the two gular mattles are small, no trace of earwattles or 
medianwattle is visible in the stuffed specimen, which is quite bare 
however at the spots where they should have been, so that they may 
have decayed before or during preparation. The collar also, as in Tem- 
minckii is pheasant-like and differentiated into two parts, its feathers 
are somewhat more enlongated than in the case of T'emminchir howe- 
ver. Those in the upper zone of the collar are purplish in the center and 
crossbarred as the purple is interrupted by gray bands, they have a 
rather light; almost silvery fringe, which becomes more golden towards 
the crown and passes gradually into the brown color of the crown- 
feathers. Towards thelower part of the collar this fringe becomes smaller 
and smaller and finally disappears entirely from the sides and almost 
from the tip in the same rate as the hackle feathers become broader and 
more pheasantlike. These feathers also are crossbarred; purple glitter- 
ing transverse bands alternate with dull black ones, they pass fur- 
ther down the back gradually into the saddle-feathers which are 
purplish black in the center and have a border of rather light gold- 
stone color. 
The leggs are yellow-white with almost white long spurs. Breast and 
belly are almost pure black. The wingcoverts are peculiar by their 
shape which approaches that of the hackles; they as well as the saddle- 
feathers end in tips which might be considered as rudiments of waxy- 
spots of a Sonneratian ancestor. The larger shouldercoverts, peeping but 
little out of the hacklelike ones, are purple with sometimes a little green 
