867, p. 457 _et seq._

[243] For cats and dogs, &c., _see_ Bellingeri, in 'Annal. des Sc. Nat.,'
2nd series, Zoolog., tom. xii. p. 155. For ferrets, Bechstein,
'Naturgeschichte Deutschlands,' Band i., 1801, s. 786, 795. For rabbits,
ditto, s. 1123, 1131; and Bronn's 'Geschichte der Natur,' B. ii. s. 99. For
mountain sheep, ditto, s. 102. For the fertility of the wild sow, _see_
Bechstein's 'Naturgesch. Deutschlands,' B. i., 1801, s. 534; for the
domestic pig, Sidney's edit. of Youatt on the Pig, 1860, p. 62. With
respect to Lapland, _see_ Acerbi's 'Travels to the North Cape,' Eng.
translat., vol. ii. p. 222. About the Highland cows, _see_ Hogg on Sheep,
p. 263.

[244] For the eggs of _Gallus bankiva_, _see_ Blyth, in 'Annals and Mag. of
Nat. Hist., 2nd series, vol. i., 1848, p. 456. For wild and tame ducks,
Macgillivray, 'British Birds,' vol. v. p. 37; and 'Die Enten,' s. 87. For
wild geese, L. Lloyd, 'Scandinavian Adventures,' vol. ii. 1854, p. 413; and
for tame geese, 'Ornamental Poultry,' by Rev. E. S. Dixon, p. 139. On the
breeding of pigeons, Pistor, 'Das Ganze der Taubenzucht,' 1831, s. 46; and
Boitard and Corbie, 'Les Pigeons,' p. 158. With respect to peacocks,
according to Temminck ('Hist. Nat. Gen. des Pigeons,' &c., 1813, tom. ii.
p. 41), the hen lays in India even as many as twenty eggs; but according to
Jerdon and another writer (quoted in Tegetmeier's 'Poultry Book,' 1866, pp.
280, 282), she there lays only from four to nine or ten eggs: in England
she is said, in the 'Poultry Book,' to lay five or six, but another writer
says from eight to twelve eggs.

[245] 'The Art of Improving the Breed, &c.,' 1809, p. 16.

[246] For Andrew Knight, _see_ A. Walker, on 'Intermarriage,' 1838, p. 227.
Sir J. Sebright's Treatise has just been quoted.

[247] 'Cattle,' p. 199.

[248] Nathusius, 'Ueber Shorthorn Rindvieh,' 1857, s. 71: _see_ also
'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1860, p. 270. Many analogous cases are given in a
pamphlet recently published by Mr. C. Macknight and Dr. H. Madden, 'On the
True Principles of Breeding;' Melbourne, Australia, 1865.

[249] Mr. Willoughby Wood, in 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1855, p. 411; and
1860, p. 270. _See_ the very clear tables and pedigrees given in Nathusius'
'Rindvieh,' s. 72-77.

[250] Mr. Wright, 'Journal of Royal Agricult. Soc.,' vol. vii., 1846, p.
204.

[251] Youatt on Cattle, p. 202.

[252] Report British Assoc., Zoolog. Sect., 1838.

[253] Azara, 'Quadrupedes du Paragu