oars, small and inexpressive eyes, and light buff-colored muzzle are well 

 shown in l-'i.^. 1. The l)ody is uniformly colored, with a dark brown 

 dorsal stripe. Sometimes there ai'c faint horizontal strii)ino;s on the 

 legs. 



Another \-er>- distineti\-e feature, well shown in Fig. 1, is the short, 

 stiff hair on the ui)per portion of the tail, of buff or dun color, traversed 

 by the \-ertieal strii)e. There is a vast difference between the short, 

 smooth and rather handsome coat of these animals in summer and 

 the rough, shaggy coat of the winter, when a long beard appears be- 

 neath the jaws. 



Fk;. 1. IIKHl) OF Fh'ZKW ALSKY WILD IIOltSFS IN ZOOLOGICAL I'AEK 



Tl liiiinal stiillion and mare to tlie It-tt. Tin- small colt. l)orii June S, 1911', is of 



unifoim buff color with a woolly coat. I'liotogiaplied June l-'O, IDll.' 



These animals were formerly widely spread over Europe, between 

 twenty and twenty-five thousand years ago. During the Ice Age, they 

 were among the favorite subjects of the cave men, who represented 

 them with extraordinary fidelit>' as to all the features we have men- 

 tioned, on the walls of the caves of the Pyrenees, and of Dorgogne and 

 northwestern Spain. Not one of these drawings shows a forelock, 



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