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'Archiv. Skand. Beiträge zur Naturgesch.,' viii. s. 397-413.
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In his 'Essays on Nat. Hist.,' 1838. Mr. Hewitt gives analogous cases with hen-pheasants in 'Journal of Horticulture,' July 12, 1864, p. 37. Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, in his 'Essais de Zoolog. Gén.' (suites à Buffon, 1842, pp. 496-513), has collected such cases in ten different kinds of birds. It appears that Aristotle was well aware of the change in mental disposition in old hens. The case of the female deer acquiring horns is given at p. 513.
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'Cottage Gardener,' 1860, p. 379.
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'Art de faire Eclorre,' &c., 1749, tom. ii. p. 8.
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Sir H. Holland, 'Medical Notes and Reflections,' 3rd edit., 1855, p. 31.
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Prof. Thomson on Steenstrup's Views on the Obliquity of Flounders: 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' May, 1865, p. 361.
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Dr. E. von Martens, in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' March, 1866, p. 209.
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Darwin, 'Balanidæ,' Ray Soc., 1854, p. 499:
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Mormodes ignea: Darwin, 'Fertilization of Orchids,' 1862, p. 251.
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'Journal of Horticulture,' July, 1864, p. 38. I have had the opportunity of examining these remarkable feathers through the kindness of Mr. Tegetmeier.
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'The Poultry Book,' by Mr. Tegetmeier, 1866, p. 241.
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Carl Vogt, 'Lectures on Man,' Eng. translat., 1864, p. 411.
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On Cattle, p. 174.
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Isid. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 'Des Anomalies,' tom. iii. p. 353. With respect to the mammæ in women,
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'Natural Hist. Review,' April, 1863, p. 258.
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Verlot, 'Des Variétés,' 1865, p. 89; Naudin, 'Nouvelles Archives du Muséum,' tom. i. p. 137.
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In his discussion on some curious peloric calceolarias, quoted in 'Journal of Horticulture,' Feb. 24, 1863, p. 152.
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For other cases of six divisions in peloric flowers of the Labiatæ and Scrophulariaceæ,
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Moquin-Tandon, 'Tératologie,' p. 186.
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'Héréd. Nat.,' tom. ii. pp. 112-120.
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Sir H. Holland, 'Chapters on Mental Physiology,' 1852, p. 234.
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'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1860, p. 270.
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Mr. N. H. Smith, Observations on Breeding, quoted in 'Encyclop. of Rural Sports,' p. 278.
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Quoted by Bronn, 'Geschichte der Natur,' b. ii. s. 170.
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Lucas, 'l'Hérédité Nat.,' tom. ii. p. 112.
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Mr. Orton, 'Physiology of Breeding,' 1855, p. 9.
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Boitard and Corbié, 'Les Pigeons,' 1824, p. 224.
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'Les Pigeons, pp. 168, 198.
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'Das Ganze,' &c., 1837, s. 39.
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'The Pigeon Book,' p. 46.
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'Physiology of Breeding,' p.22; Mr. Hewitt, in 'The Poultry Book,' by Tegetmeier, 1866, p. 224.
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Boitard and Corbié, 'Les Pigeons,' 1824, p. 226.
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'Bastarderzeugung,' s. 256, 290, &c. Naudin ('Nouvelles Archives du Muséum,' tom. i. p. 149) gives a striking instance of prepotency in
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Flourens, 'Longévité Humaine,' p. 144, on crossed jackals. With respect to the difference between the mule and the hinny, I am aware that this has generally been attributed to the sire and dam transmitting their characters differently; but Colin, who has given in his 'Traité Phys. Comp.,' tom. ii. pp. 537-539, the fullest description which I have met with of these reciprocal hybrids, is strongly of opinion that the ass preponderates in both crosses, but in an unequal degree. This is likewise the conclusion of Flourens, and of Bechstein in his 'Naturgeschichte Deutschlands,' b. i. s. 294. The tail of the hinny is much more like that of the horse than is the tail of the mule, and this is generally accounted for by the males of both species transmitting with greater power this part of their structure; but a compound hybrid which I saw in the Zoological Gardens, from a mare by a hybrid ass-zebra, closely resembled its mother in its tail.
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Mr. Hewitt, who has had such great experience in raising these hybrids, says ('Poultry Book,' by Mr. Tegetmeier, 1866, pp. 165-167) that in all, the head was destitute of wattles, comb, and ear-lappets; and all closely resembled the pheasant in the shape of the tail and general contour of the body. These hybrids were raised from hens of several breeds by a cock-pheasant; but another hybrid, described by Mr. Hewitt, was raised from a hen-pheasant by a silver-laced Bantam cock, and this possessed a rudimental comb and wattles.
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'L'Héréd. Nat.,' tom. ii. book ii. ch. i.
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'Bastarderzeugung,' s. 264-266. Naudin ('Nouvelles Archives du Muséum,' tom. i. p. 148) has arrived at a similar conclusion.
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'Cottage Gardener,' 1856, pp. 101, 137.
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Verlot, 'Des Variétés,' 1865, p. 66.
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Moquin-Tandon, 'Tératologie,' p. 191.
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'Nouvelles Archives du Muséum,' tom. i. p. 137.
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'L'Héréd. Nat.,' tom. ii. pp. 137-165.
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On Sexual Limitation in Hereditary Diseases, 'Brit. and For. Med. – Chirurg. Review,' April, 1861, p. 477; July, p. 198; April, 1863, p. 44; and July, p. 159.
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W. Scrope, 'Art of Deer Stalking,' p. 354.
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Boitard and Corbié, 'Les Pigeons,' p. 173; Dr. F. Chapuis, 'Le Pigeon Voyageur Belge,' 1865, p. 87.
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Prichard, 'Phys. Hist. of Mankind,' 1851, vol. i. p. 349.
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'Embassy to the Court of Ava,' vol. i. p. 320. The third generation is described by Capt. Yule in his 'Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava,' 1855, p. 94.
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'Das Ganze der Taubenzucht,' 1837, s. 21, tab. i., fig. 4; s. 24, tab. iv., fig. 2.
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Kidd's 'Treatise on the Canary,' p. 18.
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Charlesworth, 'Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' vol. i., 1837, p. 167.
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Dr. Prosper Lucas, 'Héréd. Nat.,' tom. ii. p. 713.
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