The genetic and the operative evidence relating to secondary sexual charactersMorgan, Thomas Hunt
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The genetic and the operative evidence relating to secondary sexual characters
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Genetics; Poultry; Sex (Biology)
FIG. 3. One of the two F₁ castrated birds. For comparison see the
colored drawing in plate 2, figure 4.
FIG. 4. A castrated Sebright. This bird is darker, and in this
sense more typical than figure 2.
FIG. 5. One of the castrated Sebright males which at one time after
castration was as extremely cock-feathered as figure 2, but slowly
“went back” towards hen-feathering, as the figure shows especially
in the hackle and saddle. The details are much better shown in the
feathers photographed in plate 8, figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 1_a_, 2_a_,
3_a_, 4_a_, 1_b_, 2_b_, 3_b_, 4_b_.
FIG. 6. The same bird was opened and the regenerated pieces of the
testis removed. He returned later, as shown here, to full
cock-feathering.
PLATE 6.
FIGS. 1, 1A. Typical old (1) and new (1_a_) feathers (after
castration) of the same bird. This is the “lighter” male drawn in
plate 1, figure 4, and photographed in plate 5, figure 2.
FIGS. 2, 2A. Typical old (2) and new (2_a_) (after castration)
feathers of another Sebright. This bird developed after castration
darker feathers than did the last bird. Its feathers were more like
those that other castrated Sebrights developed. Legend on plate 6
erroneous as far as 2 and 2a are concerned.
PLATE 7.
FIGS. 1, 1A. Typical old (1) and new (1_a_) (after castration)
feathers of an F₁ bird. (See plate 2, figures 1 and 4.)
FIGS. 2, 2A. Typical old (2) and new (2A) (after castration)
feathers of bird shown in plate 3, figures 2 and 3 (No. 292).
PLATE 8.
Typical feathers of “dark” Sebright (1, 2, 3, 4) that after
incomplete castration changed to cock-feathering (1_a_, 2_a_, 3_a_,
4_a_), then later, as pieces of the testes that had been left
behind in the old situs regenerated, began to go back towards
hen-feathering (1_b_, 2_b_, 3_b_, 4_b_). The bird was then opened
again, and the regenerated pieces removed, when it again became
cock-feathered (1_c_, 2_c_, 3_c_, 4_c_), and has so remained for
more than a year.
PLATE 9.
FIGS. 1, 1A. Typical feathers of hackle and saddle from
hen-feathered bird (No. 68) plate 3, figure 2, that changed over to
the cock-feathered bird of plate 3, figure 3.
FIGS. 2, 2A. Typical feathers of an F₁ male (2) that changed over
partly as a result of degeneration of his testes, into a
cock-feathered bird (2A). The change was not so great as it is
after castration.
FIGS. 3, 3A. Typical feathers of Sebright male that slightly
changed towards cock-feathering (old hackle feather missing).
PLATE 10.
FIGS. 1, 1A. Old (1) and new (1A) wing-coverts of normal Sebright
(1) and castrated (1A).
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