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3. Five Icelandic ponies were mated with Matopo, of whom one 

 produced, in 1897, a dark-colored hybrid. The dam, Tundra, was a 

 yellow and white skewbald which had previously produced a light bay 

 foal to a stallion of its own breed. Her third foal (1898) was fathered by 

 a bay Shetland pony, and in coloration closely resembled its dam. 

 There was no hint of infection in this case. This year Professor Ewart 

 has bred from this mare, by Matopo, a zebra-hybrid of a creamy-fawn 

 color, and so primitive in its markings that he believes it to stand in 

 much the same relation to horses, zebras, and asses as the blue-rock 

 does to the various breeds of pigeons (see illustration). 



Tundra (an Iceland Pony), i.kr Foal, Circus Girl (born 1898), and her Hybrid 

 Foal, Sib John (by Matopo), when a Month Old (born 1899). 



4. Two Irish mares, both bays, produced hybrids by Matopo, and 

 subsequently bore pure-bred foals. One of the latter was by a thorough- 

 bred horse, the other by a hackney pony. The foals were without 

 stripes, and showed no kind of indication that their mother had ever 

 been mated with a zebra. 



5. Although Professor Ewart experimented with seven English 

 thoroughbred mares and an Arab, he only succeeded in one case. The 

 mare produced twin hybrids, one of which unfortunately died imme- 

 diately after birth. This summer the same mare has produced a foal 

 to a thoroughbred chestnut; "neither in make, color, nor action'' does it 

 in any way resemble a zebra or a zebra-hybrid. 



6. A bay marc which had been in foal to Matopo for some months 



