Note 24 — Chapter XXV · LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—CORRELATED VARIABILITY.

Loudon’s ‘Mag. of Nat. Hist.,’ vol. i. 1829, pp. 66, 178. See also Dr. P. Lucas, ‘L’Héréd. Nat.,’ tom. i. p. 428, on the inheritance of deafness in cats. Mr. Lawson Tait states (‘Nature,’ 1873, p. 323) that only male cats are thus affected; but this must be a hasty generalisation. The first case recorded in England by Mr. Bree related to a female, and Mr. Fox informs me that he has bred kittens from a white female with blue eyes, which was completely deaf; he has also observed other females in the same condition.