Chap. II THEIR COLOURS AND STRIPES. 61 



and Burchell's zebra. When this foal was two or three months old 

 all the stripes entirely disappeared. I have seen similar marks on 

 the forehead of a fully grown, fallow-dnn, cob-like horse, having 

 a conspicuous spinal stripe, and with its front legs well barred. 



In Norway the colour of the native horse or pony is dun, varying 

 from almost cream-colour to dark-mouse dun ; and an animal is not 

 considered purely bred unless it has the spinal and leg-stripes. 34 

 My son estimated that about a third of the ponies which he saw 

 there had striped legs ; he counted seven stripes on the fore-legs and 

 two on the hind-legs of one pony ; only a few of them exhibited 

 traces of shoulder stripes ; but I have heard of a cob imported from 

 Norway which had the shoulder as well as the other stripes well 

 developed. Colonel H. Smith 35 alludes to dun-horses with the 

 spinal stripe in the Sierras of Spain; and the horses originally 

 derived from Spain, in some parts of South America, are now duns. 

 Sir W. Elliot informs me that he inspected a herd of 300 South 

 American horses imported into Madras, and many of these had 

 transverse stripes on the legs and short shoulder-stripes ; the most 

 strongly marked individual, of which a coloured drawing was sent 

 me, was a mouse-dun, w T ith the shoulder- stripes slightly forked. 



In the North- Western parts of India striped horses of more than 

 one breed are apparently commoner than in any other part of the 

 world; and I have received information respecting them from 

 several officers, especially from Colonel Poole, Colonel Curtis, Major 

 Campbell, Brigadier St. John, and others. The Kattywar horses 

 are often fifteen or sixteen hands in height, and are well but lightly 

 built. They are of all colours, but the several kinds of duns prevail; 

 and these are so generally striped, that a horse without stripes is 

 not considered pure. Colonel Poole believes that all the duns have 

 the spinal stripe, the leg-stripes are generally present, and he thinks 

 that about half the horses have the shoulder-stripe ; this stripe is 

 sometimes double or treble on both shoulders. Colonel Poole has 

 often seen stripes on the cheeks and sides of the nose. He has seen 

 stripes on the grey and bay Kattywars when first foaled, but they 

 soon faded away. I have received other accounts of cream-coloured, 

 bay, brown, and grey Kattywar horses being striped. Eastward of 

 India, the Shan (north of Burmah) ponies, as I am informed by 

 Mr. Blyth, have spinal, leg, and shoulder stripes. Sir W. Elliot 

 informs me that he saw two bay Pegu ponies with leg-stripes. 

 Burmese and Javanese ponies are frequently dun-coloured, and have 

 the three kinds of stripes, "in the same degree as in England." 36 

 Mr. Swinhoe informs me that he examined two light-dun ponies of 



34 I have received information, vol. xii. p. 275. 



through the kindness of the Consul- 36 Mr. G. Clark, in ' Annal and Mag. 



General, Mr. J. R. Crowe, from Prof. of Nat. History,' 2nd series, vol. ii. 



Boeck, Rasck, and Esmarck, on the 1848, p. 363. Mr. Wallace informs 



colours of the Norwegian ponies. See me that he saw in Java a dun and 



also 'The Field,' 1861, p. 431 clay-coloured horse with spinal and 



35 Col. Hamilton Smith, ' Nat. Lib. leg stripes. 



