The history of the syndactyl strain begins with No. 121 ♀ and in the matings 1 to 8 are given the results of crossing together some of her progeny derived from a normal-toed father. This father was either No. 8A or 1A, both full-blooded Tosa (Japanese Game) fowl and without suspicion in either soma or offspring of syndactyl taint. There is no record of trace of syndactylism in the progeny of 121 × 8A (or 1A); but a slightly developed condition of syndactylism may very well have been overlooked by me in this F1 generation (as I had never thought of such an abnormality), even as I at first overlooked the syndactylism visible in No. 121. But when these F1 hybrids were mated together (pen 627, serial Nos. 1 to 8) I got, in the different families, from 10 per cent syndactyl offspring down to none at all. At first sight the suggestion arises that, if inheritance is at all Mendelian, the normal condition is dominant and that the heterozygotes throw again, in pen 627, the syndactylous condition. If this hypothesis were true it would follow that syndactyls bred together should, sometimes at least, throw, even in large families, 100 per cent syndactyl offspring. But only 2 families, Nos. 30 and 34, have yielded 100 per cent syndactyls, and these contained 2 and 1 offspring, respectively; so they are not significant. On the other hand, there are numerous matings of 2 extracted normal-toed parents that have produced only normal-toed offspring (families Nos. 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, including 119 individuals). Consequently the conclusion is favored that normal-foot is recessive and syndactyl-foot dominant, and this shall be our working hypothesis. On our hypothesis, No. 121 is probably a heterozygote. Mated with the recessive normal, expectation is 50 per cent heterozygous, showing syndactylism; the remainder normal-toed. But dominance is here, as in polydactylism, very imperfect. For this reason and because it was not looked for, no syndactylism was noted in the first hybrid generation. The offspring prove to be of two sorts, however. No. 180 ♂ is a pure recessive, and in 8 matings with as many different sisters of his he got 184 normal-toed to 1 syndactyl. These same sisters, mated to another brother, No. 242, in some cases gave 9 per cent and 10 per cent syndactyl. No. 242 is, consequently, probably a DR and, mated to DR sisters (which constitute according to expectation about one-half of all) gives some DD's, part of which constitute the 9 to 10 per cent of syndactyls. Of course, 25 per cent DD is to be expected; the difference gives a measure in this instance of the imperfection of dominance in the "extracted" as well as "heterozygous" condition.