[Illustration: PLATE 6 Second hybrid generation between Silkie and Spanish Minorca, (No. 3898) female. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore. Kako Morita, pinx.] [Illustration: PLATE 7 Buff Cochin, (No. 545) male. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore. Kako Morita, pinx.] [Illustration: PLATE 8 Cock of first hybrid generation between Black Cochin and Buff Cochin. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore. Kako Morita, pinx.] [Illustration: PLATE 9 Cockerel (No. 6094) of first hybrid generation between Buff Cochin Cock and Silkie Hen. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore.] [Illustration: PLATE 10 Cockerel (No. 2561) of second hybrid generation between Buff Cochin and White Leghorn. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore. Kako Morita, pinx.] [Illustration: PLATE 11 Dark Brahma, (No. 122) male. The detailed feathers are in order from right to left from first, third and fourth wing coverts. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore. Kenji Toda, pinx.] [Illustration: PLATE 12 A cock (No. 5257) of the third hybrid generation between a single-comb Black Minorca and a Dark Brahma shown in plate 6. The detailed feathers are in order from right to left from the first, second, fourth and third wing coverts. A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore. Kenji Toda, pinx.] Transcriber's notes. Words in italics are surrounded by _underscored-. Clear printer's errors were corrected, but original spelling was not modified or harmonized. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl, by Charles Benedict Davenport