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O X 43. Few people exhibit for long with success, because do not cross 89 Cross-bred Fowls the hardiest.

[Variation 1: 125: "An experienced writer29 remarks that the same amateur, as is well known, seldom long maintains the superiority of his birds; and this, he adds, undoubtedly is due to all his stock "being of the same blood;" hence it is indispensable that he should occasionally procure a bird of another strain. But this is not necessary with those who keep a stock of fowls at different stations.
29 'The Poultry Chronicle,' 1854, vol. i. p. 43."]

55 Description of Ptarmigans F

O 64 Loss of secondary male characters not accompanied by infertility. Mem. Lucanidae S

(Q) 101 Case of Blue fowl from cross breeding true for generations (mem Kohlreuter Gaertner on some Hybrid Plant do

[Variation 1: 97: "The editor of the 'Poultry Chronicle'31 bred some bluish fowls from a black Spanish cock and a Malay hen; and these remained true to colour "generation after generation." 31 Vol. i., 1854, p. 101."]

X (Q) 128 In Hens of Spanish. Comb very large, transformed male character: Comb lops F

123 Crown of Brahma & Cochin different F O

(Q) —166 3 Rouen Ducks not fatted weighed 26 1/4 — fatted 34 lb — their Quack different Duck & Drake equal— D Hardy — Abdominal sack greatly developed

175 Jumper Hen, hops

190 rapid changes in fashion in Poultry Selection

210 Extra toe very hereditary in Cochin p 560 do further particulars . p. 455. not so.

261 Cochins very small tail. how is os coccygis?

329 Labrador Ducks fly well D (Q)

342 Dorking when quite pure colour & shape of comb excessively variable Select; other points fixed how like Protean species)

344. Darker chickens of silver Bantam make best Birds, when full-grown F C

391. P Brent on vars. of Pouters, German &c (N.Q)

[Variation 1: 132: "Mr. B. P. Brent, well known for his various contributions to poultry literature, has aided me in every way during several years; so has Mr. Tegetmeier, with unwearied kindness."]

455 In pure Dorkings the 5th toe is not of certain appearance

456 Guinea-fowls joining nests common. 84 eggs in one (Q)

460 P Germans have a large sort of Tumbler (NQ)

485 middle toe of Cochins very long F O

[Variation 1: 259: "Mr. Tegetmeier observed this in one bird, but it was not so in one which I examined. In Cochins the middle toe is said65 to be nearly double the length of the lateral toes, and therefore much longer than in G. bankiva or in other fowls; but this was not the case in two which I examined. The nail of the middle toe in this same breed is surprisingly broad and flat, but in a variable degree in two birds which I examined; of this structure in the nail there is only a trace in G. bankiva.
65 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. i. p. 485."]

498 Embden goose all white D — Toulouse Grayish Brown—(mem. about antarctic Gander all white —something about Domestic Goose white

[Variation 1: 289: "At our Shows two breeds are exhibited; viz. the Embden and Toulouse; but they differ in nothing except colour.30
30 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. i., 1854, p. 498; vol. iii. p. 210."]

X 587 595 Dorking with double spur F (Q)

[Variation 1: 255: "These latter birds seem aware that their spurs are not efficient weapons; for though they occasionally use them, they more frequently fight, as I am informed by Mr. Tegetmeier, by seizing and shaking each other with their beaks. In some Indian Game-cocks, received by Mr. Brent from Germany, there are, as he informs me, three, four, or even five spurs on each leg. Some Dorkings also have two spurs on each leg;53 and in birds of this breed the spur is often placed almost on the outside of the leg. Double spurs are mentioned in the ancient Chinese Encyclopædia.
53 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. i. p. 595. Mr. Brent has informed me of the same fact."]

607 Sebright Bantam shd not weigh more than 21 oz . Sir John wd take 2 or 3 days considering his Birds to match

Vol 2

8 P German Fantail shorter & thicker necks B. (NQ)

O 36 Authentic History of Sebright Bantams F

[Variation 1: 96: "The Sebright bantam, which breeds as true as any other kind of fowl, was formed about sixty years ago by a complicated cross.25
25 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. ii., 1854, p. 36."]

(Q) 71. Editor All Breeds Q of Fowls occasionally throw white ears-lappets with reference to game, as in Spanish & Hamburg how at [illeg] F —

[Variation 1: 244: "The editor of the 'Poultry Chronicle'32 remarks that all the breeds which properly have red ear-lappets occasionally produce birds with white ear-lappets. This remark more especially applies to the Game breed, which of all comes nearest to the G. bankiva; and we have seen that with this species living in a state of nature, the ear-lappets vary in colour, being red in the Malayan countries, and generally, but not invariably, white in India.
32 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. ii. p. 71."]

84 P 2 sub-vars in size of Trumpeters (Q)

89 Eggs from common Duck & Musk take intermediate time to hatch D

91. 2 sub-vars of Labrador Ducks D (Q)

[Variation 1: 276: "The top-knot in a duck which I imported from Holland was two and a half inches in diameter. (4) Labrador (or Canadian, or Buenos Ayres, or East Indian); plumage entirely black; beak broader, relatively to its length, than in the wild-duck; eggs slightly tinted with black. This sub-breed perhaps ought to be ranked as a breed; it includes two sub-varieties, one as large as the common domestic duck, which I have kept alive, and the other smaller and often capable of flight.1
1 'Poultry Chronicle' (1854), vol. ii. p. 91, and vol. i. p. 330."]

132 Crests of Poland not fully developed till old F C (Q)

[Variation 1: 250: "In Polish fowls, the extraordinary protuberance of the anterior part of the skull is well developed before the chickens come out of the egg;40 but the crest, which is supported on the protuberance, is at first feebly developed, nor does it attain its full size until the second year.
40 […] On the late development of the crest, see 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. ii. p. 132."]

150 Dorkings Combs highly variable — 2 sub-classes took prizes from same parents — colour also variable

155 On different sub-vars of Canary Birds

175 Pheasant Fowls, an English Breed

210 Guelderland Breed of Fowls F

O 233 In error in Breeding Brother & Sister must not be matched

282 P Brents account of Smiters N.Q

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354— 5 toed Spanish, breed true in toes — in crosses one foot will have more toes than other (Q)

412 X Wild Turkeys very hereditary in plumage — keep distinct from tame O

416 P Classification of Pigeons Brent (NQ)

418 on Serai-tookai Fowls p 467 Nothing particular in either case F.

X 446 Crosses between Cochin & Bantams O Guinea Pigs

489 on incubation of crossed Ducks D — (Guinea-pig gestation very long varying. Brent knows nothing particular) NQ

499 Ears of Rabbit Birmingham Show Rabbit

[Variation 1: 107: "Certain characters are remarkably fluctuating, or are very feebly transmitted by domestic rabbits: thus, one breeder tells me that with the smaller kinds he has hardly ever raised a whole litter of the same colour: with the large lop-eared breeds "it is impossible," says a great judge,11 "to breed true to colour, but by judicious crossing a great deal may be done towards it. The fancier should know how his does are bred, that is, the colour of their parents.
11 'Journal of Horticulture,' 1861, p. 327. With respect to the ears, see Delamer on 'Pigeons and Rabbits,' 1854, p. 141; also 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. ii. p. 499, and ditto for 1854, p. 586."]

512 on strong hereditariness of crest in Poland & Toe in Dorking F

― Parrots breeding in confinement O S

555 General Sketch of Fowls F

562 P On colour of eyes in Pigeons (N.Q)

573 P Weight of Runt (Q)

[Variation 1: 144: "They are bad flyers. A few years ago Mr. Gulliver11 exhibited a Runt which weighed 1 lb. 14 oz.; and, as I am informed by Mr. Tegetmeier, two Runts from the south of France were lately exhibited at the Crystal Palace, each of which weighed 2 lbs. 2½ oz. A very fine rock-pigeon from the Shetland Islands weighed only 14½ oz.
11 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. ii. p. 573."]

596 took 13 years to put white head on a Almond Tumbler Selection

Vol. 3.

9 The Toys can field, but not the Fancy Pigeons Disuse

(Q) 13 Hereditary good sitters p 486 Spanish & Polish have lost this instinct (Q)

[Variation 1: 44: "One author goes so far as to say, "that a cross between two non-sitting varieties almost invariably produces a mongrel that becomes broody, and sits with remarkable steadiness."39
A cross-bred bird from a Spanish non-incubating cock and Cochin incubating hen is mentioned in the 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. iii. p. 13, as an 'exemplary mother.'"]

(Q) 14. Golden & common Pheasants, hybrids always quite sterile, but longer than either parent.

Hybrids do with silver & common & Fowl & common, also larger — Difficult to raise for most of eggs are barren — chicken less hardy

76 Oldest var influences colour most ? B.P.B

82 P Mr Woodhouse, crested Pigeons (Q)

[Variation 1: 160: "I need say nothing on the great variability, in almost every breed, in size of body, in colour, in the feathering of the feet, and in the feathers on the back of the head being reversed. But I may mention a remarkable Tumbler28 exhibited at the Crystal Palace, which had an irregular crest of feathers on its head, somewhat like the tuft on the head of the Polish fowl."]

(Q) 166 Spanish Cocks distinguished at younger age F C Hens large Comb character transferred.—

[Variation 1: 250: "In the Dutch sub-breed of the Spanish fowl the white ear-lappets are developed earlier than in the common Spanish breed.41
41 On these points, see 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. iii. p. 166"]

210 Embden & Thoulouse distinct breeds of Geese Grouse

[Variation 1: 289: Shows two breeds are exhibited; viz. the Embden and Toulouse; but they differ in nothing except colour.30
30 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. i., 1854, p. 498; vol. iii. p. 210."]

245 Dorkings sometimes true to colour

261 Call Ducks hatching in 24 days instead of 28 as said to be D always same with Ducks

428 Larvae of Bleps discharged from Human Stomach (Ch. 8)

(Q) 487 X Hybrids Pure China Geese breeding with his own hybrid offspring  but his son was sterile with same

(Q) 512 on Breeds of Ducks, all accounted for by crossing D

[Variation 1: 277: "It shows its prolonged domestication by almost incessantly laying eggs, like the fowls which are called everlasting layers.4
4 F. Cuvier, in 'Annales du Muséum,' tom. ix. p. 128, says that moulting and incubation alone stop these ducks laying. Mr. B. P. Brent makes a similar remark in the 'Poultry Chronicle,' 1855, vol. iii. p. 512.
Almost all naturalists admit that the several breeds are descended from the common wild duck (Anas boschas); most fanciers, on the other hand, take as usual a very different view.5"]

Mr. B. P. Brent, in 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. iii., 1855, p. 512."

[Variation 1: 280: "Moreover, sub-varieties of each breed are coloured almost exactly like the wild duck, as I have seen with the largest and smallest breeds, namely Rouens and Call-ducks, and, as Mr. Brent states,11 is the case with Hook-billed ducks.
11 'Poultry Chronicle,' 1855, vol. iii. p. 512.
p. 281: "Mr. Brent14 says that, when hook-billed ducks are crossed with common ducks, "many young ones are produced with the upper mandible shorter than the lower, which not unfrequently causes the death of the bird."
14 'Poultry Chronicle,' 1855, vol. iii. p. 512."]

I have somehow overlooked M Brents classification of Pigeons— ? see Vol 2 p 416?

(Q) 487 on Fowls losing instinct to sit This must be compulsory p. 13 habit?— Then give cases of variation, perhaps sport. R