. A history of birds . ARTIFICIAL AS ILLUSTKATKD l:V VARIETIES OFTHE COMMON FOWL RKD COCHINISROWN ARTIFICIAL SELECTION 341 other valuable characters have been lost, since there was noreason to suppose that the development of the one couldpossibly affect the well-beinp^ of the other. Thus the Game-cock bred by our forebears for the purpose of fighting has nowbeen changed so materially as to be quite unfit for its originalpurpose—supposing this were still permitted. Similarly, inthe case of other breeds, prolificness has been lost in acquiringother characters which appeal onl
. A history of birds . ARTIFICIAL AS ILLUSTKATKD l:V VARIETIES OFTHE COMMON FOWL RKD COCHINISROWN ARTIFICIAL SELECTION 341 other valuable characters have been lost, since there was noreason to suppose that the development of the one couldpossibly affect the well-beinp^ of the other. Thus the Game-cock bred by our forebears for the purpose of fighting has nowbeen changed so materially as to be quite unfit for its originalpurpose—supposing this were still permitted. Similarly, inthe case of other breeds, prolificness has been lost in acquiringother characters which appeal only to the eye. Man, in short, by selection, by breeding only from thosebirds which possessed or gave promise of the qualities hedesired to improve, has been able to effect nothing short of atransformation in the case of some birds, while in others hehas succeeded in changing but little. One would suppose, however, from the statements of somewriters, that the various domesticated races of, say. Pigeonsor Fowls, represe
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