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Mongolian ponies display leg-striping when in the summer coat), a marked resem- 

 blance between the two forms is noticeable in the sparse hairing of the base of 

 the tail. 



There can, indeed, be little, if any, doubt as to the near relationship of the 

 domesticated Kathiawar pony to the wild pony of Mongolia, the former occu- 

 pying, in fact, a kind of halfway position between the latter and an ordinary 

 English pony. This resemblance, I venture to think, disposes for ever of the 

 pretensions of Equus prejeivalski to rank as a distinct species, and the question 

 narrows itself as to whether we are to consider the latter or the Kathiawar 

 pony as the ancestral type — that is to say, whether the Kathiawar pony is a 

 domesticated form of the wild Mongolian pony, or whether the Mongolian 

 pony is itself only a Kathiawar pony (or a nearly related breed with a white 

 muzzle) run wild. It would be of interest if Indian readers could give any 

 information as to whether white muzzles occur in Kathiawar ponies. I have 

 seen them in English dun ponies. 



R. L; 



(The above appeared in the Field on 28th November, 1903.) 



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