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POSSIBILITY OF REDUCING CALVING DIFFICULTIES BY SELECTION III. mdash; A NOTE ON PELVIC SIZE IN RELATION TO BODY WEIGHT OF CATTLE 1)( St. C. S. TAYLOR, L. S. MONTEIRO B. PERREAU* A. R. C. Animal Breeding Research Organisation, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JQ (Scotland) ’! Station de Génétique quantitative et appliquie 1. N. R. A., Domaine de Galle, Avord 18800 Baugy (France) SUMMARY Internal measurements of pelvic height and width were made on 33 nulliparous or non- nulliparous females from 10 breed groups, varying from 8 months to 6 years of age, and reared either on a conventional or a complete diet. The allometric relation of pelvic height and width to body weight after adjustement for the effect of and diet coefficients of and 050.for parturition gave growth ::I:350.040. ::I:400- height and width respectively. The inter-breed regressions for the logarithm of pelvic size adjusted for of on the of mean mature were 800.and 100. degree maturity logarithm weight 6 ::I:40. ::I:370. for height and width respectively. Thus, within the limitations of the data, pelvic size could be estimated at any stage of maturity with an error of ! !p. 100 (or id 4 p. oolif adjusted for parturition, diet and breed) from the equations : The effect of one or more parturitions was to increase expected pelvic height by 159-p. 100 and width by 123-p. 100.The effect of intensive rearing was to reduce expected pelvic