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On the transmission of colour by the horse, see 'Variation of Animals and Plants download windows xp under Domestication,' vol. 71, for a general discussion on 'Inheritance as limited by Sex.'), that in Siberia domestic cattle and horses become lighter-coloured during the winter; and I have myself observed, and heard of similar strongly marked changes of colour, that is, from brownish cream-colour or reddish-brown to a perfect white, in several ponies in England.

Although I do not know that this download windows xp tendency to change the colour of the coat during different seasons is transmitted, yet it probably is so, as all shades of colour are strongly inherited by the horse. Nor is this form of inheritance, as limited by the seasons, more remarkable than its limitation by age or sex. The equal transmission of characters download windows xp to both sexes is the commonest form of download windows xp inheritance, at least with those animals which do not present strongly- marked sexual differences, and indeed with many of these.

But characters are download windows xp somewhat commonly transferred exclusively to that sex, in which they first appear. Ample evidence on this head has been advanced in my work on 'Variation under Domestication,' but a few instances may here be given. There are breeds of the sheep and goat, in which the horns of the male differ greatly in shape from those of the female; and these differences, acquired download windows xp under domestication, are regularly transmitted to the same download windows xp sex. As a rule, it is the females alone in cats which are tortoise-shell, the corresponding colour in the males being rusty-red.

With most breeds of the fowl, the characters proper to each sex are transmitted to the same sex alone.

So general is this form download windows xp of transmission that it is an anomaly when variations in certain breeds are transmitted equally to both sexes. There are also certain sub-breeds of download windows xp the fowl in which the males can hardly be distinguished from one another, whilst the females differ considerably in colour. The sexes of download windows xp the pigeon in the parent-species do not differ in any external character; nevertheless, in certain domesticated breeds the male is coloured differently from the female.

Boitard et Corbie, 'Les Pigeons de Voliere,' etc., 1824, p. See, also, on similar differences in certain breeds at Modena, 'Le variazioni dei Colombi domestici,' del Paolo Bonizzi, 1873.) The wattle in the English Carrier pigeon, and the crop in the Pouter, are more highly developed in the male than in the female; and although these characters have been gained through download windows xp long-continued selection by man, the slight differences between the sexes are wholly due to the form of inheritance which has prevailed; for they have arisen, not from, but rather in opposition to, the wish of the breeder. Most of download windows xp our domestic races have been formed by the accumulation of many slight variations; and as some of the successive steps have been transmitted to one sex alone, and some to both sexes, we find in the different breeds of the same species all gradations between great sexual dissimilarity and complete similarity. Instances have already been given with the breeds of the fowl and pigeon, and under nature analogous cases are common.

With animals under domestication, but whether in download windows xp nature I will not venture to say, one sex may lose characters proper to it, and may thus come somewhat to resemble the opposite sex; for instance, the males of some breeds of the fowl have lost their masculine tail-plumes and hackles. On the other hand, the download windows xp differences between the sexes may be increased under domestication, as with merino sheep, in which the ewes have lost their horns. Again, characters proper to one sex may suddenly appear in the other sex; as in those sub-breeds of download windows xp the fowl in which the hens acquire spurs whilst young; or, as in certain Polish sub-breeds, in which the download games females, as there is reason to believe, originally acquired a crest, and download windows xp subsequently transferred it to the freegames download males. All these cases are intelligible on the hypothesis of pangenesis; for they depend on the gemmules of certain parts, although present in both sexes, becoming, through the influence of domestication, either dormant or developed in either sex. There is one difficult question which it will be convenient to defer to a future chapter; namely, whether a download windows xp character at first developed in both sexes, could through selection be limited in its development to one sex alone.

If, for instance, a breeder download windows xp observed that some of his pigeons (of which the characters are usually download google talk transferred in an equal degree to both sexes) varied into pale blue, could he by long-continued selection make a download windows xp breed, in which the males alone should be of this tint, whilst the females remained unchanged?