(14/6. Quoted by Bronn 'Geshichte der Natur' b. 2 s. 170. See Sturm 'Ueber
Racen' 1825 s. 104-107. For the niata cattle see my 'Journal of Researches'
1845 page 146.) Godine has given a curious case of a ram of a goat-like breed
of sheep from the Cape of Good Hope, which produced offspring hardly to be
distinguished from himself, when crossed with ewes of twelve other breeds. But
two of these half-bred ewes, when put to a merino ram, produced lambs closely
resembling the merino breed. Girou de Buzareingues (14/7. Lucas 'L'Heredite
Nat.' tome 2 page 112.) found that of two races of French sheep the ewes of
one, when crossed during successive generations with merino rams, yielded up
their character far sooner than the ewes of the other race. Sturm and Girou
have given analogous cases with other breeds of sheep and with cattle, the
prepotency running in these cases through the male side; but I was assured on
good authority in South America, that when niata cattle are crossed with
common cattle, though the niata breed is prepotent whether males or females
are used, yet that the prepotency is strongest through the female line. The
Manx cat is tailless and has long hind legs; Dr. Wilson crossed a male Manx
with common cats, and, out of twenty-three kittens, seventeen were destitute
of tails; but when the female Manx was crossed by common male cats all the
kittens had tails, though they were generally short and imperfect. (14/8. Mr.
Orton 'Physiology of Breeding' 1855 page 9.)

In making reciprocal crosses between pouter and fantail pigeons, the pouter-
race seemed to be prepotent through both sexes over the fantail. But this is
probably due to weak power in the fantail rather than to any unusually strong
power in the pouter, for I have observed that barbs also preponderate over
fantails. This weakness of transmission in the fantail, though the breed is an
ancient one, is said (14/9. Boitard and Corbie 'Les Pigeons' 1824 page 224.)
to be general; but I have observed one exception to the rule, namely, in a
cross between a fantail and laugher. The most curious instance known to me of
weak power in both sexes is in the trumpeter pigeon. This breed has been well