Lectures On the Darwinian Theory Delivered By the Late Arthur Milnes Marshall
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The wattle is sometimes replaced by a tuft of feathers. The Bantam is of small size and bold erect carriage. The Silk-fowl is a small bird with very silky feathers. All these birds, differing so much among them- selves, are descended from Gallus bankiva, the Jungle-fowl (Fig. 3), which is still found in a wild state in India and the Malay Islands. This bird was domesticated in India and China before 1400 B.C., and was introduced into Europe about 600 b.c. Several distinct breeds were known to t...he Romans about the commencement of the Christian era. 3 The Ancon Sheep. — Another well-known ex- ample of artificial selection, and one of the few known instances in which new breeds have suddenly originated, is that of the Ancon Sheep, bred by Seth Wright, a farmer of Massachusetts. In 1791 one of Seth Wright's sheep bore a male lamb which had very short and bandy legs. Now, as Wright was continually losing his sheep, owing to their jumping 36 THE DARWINIAN THEORY over his fences, it occurred to him that, if he could produce a breed of sheep with short bandy legs, he would lose none of them, as they would be unable to jump his fences.
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