[25] Azara, ‘Essais Hist. Nat. de Paraguay,’ tom. ii. 1801, p. 372.
[26] These facts are given on the high authority of Mr. Hewitt, in ‘The Poultry Book,’ by Mr. Tegetmeier, 1866, p. 248.
[27] ‘The Poultry Book,’ by Tegetmeier, 1866, p. 97.
[28] ‘Gardener’s Chron. and Agricultural Gazette,’ 1866, p. 528.
[29] Ibid., 1860, p. 343. I am glad to find that so experienced a breeder of cattle as Mr. Willoughby Wood, (‘Gard. Chron.’ 1869, p. 1216), admits my principle of a cross giving a tendency to reversion.
[30] Sclater in ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,’ 1862, p. 163.
[31] ‘History of the Horse,’ p. 212.
[32] ‘Mém. présentés par divers Savans à l’Acad. Royale,’ tom. vi. 1835, p. 338.
[33] ‘Letters from Alabama,’ 1859, p. 280.
[34] ‘Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes,’ 1820, tom. i.