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they would have been quickly seized 

 upon as evidence in favor of telej^ony, 

 had not J. Cossar-Ewart had control 

 experiments goini^ on at the same time. 

 In these, two mares which had never 

 before been bred, were bred to the same 

 stallion L and each one foaled a strijjed 

 colt, very similar to the two colts of 

 Mulatto. The influence of the zebra 

 therefore becomes more than doubtful 

 for her two colts, as well for the one 

 sired by stallion L as for the one sired 

 by stallion B. 



The progeny of the mare Nora also 

 merit special mention. Bred to the 

 stallion W, before she had ever seen a 

 zebra, she foaled a colt which, richly 



striped at birth, kept three permanent 

 stripes on the shoulder: bred then to a 

 zebra, she foaled a hybrid; finally, she 

 was bred to the stallion C and foaled a 

 colt without the least sign of stripes. 

 Again bred, in two different seasons, to a 

 zebra, she produced two more hybrids; 

 and finally bred to the stallion S, she 

 foaled a colt which bore not the least 

 resemblance to a zebra. Thus the only 

 striped colt, which could have given 

 hope to the advocates of tclegony, is the 

 one first foaled, at a time when the mare 

 had never been bred to a zebra. All the 

 other colts, bom after the hybrid 

 crosses, showed no resemblance to a 

 zebra. This example shows once more 



ahi.e II. 



Mares 



Date of Foaling 



Progeny 



Characters 



Litvinka (brown) born 

 in 1893 



Pliakh.-i ''Mebald) born 

 in 1896 ■ 



1897 zebroid (aborted) j 



1898 foaled a zebroid 

 1902 foaled a zebroid 



1905 zebroid (aborted) 



1906 foaled a colt by half-blood Arab 



" Lebed " no stripes 



1907 foaled a zebroid 



1908 colt by Lebed no stripes 



1909 colt, sire unknown no stripes 



1901 foaled a zebroid 



1902 to 1910 foaled nine colts none striped 



1912 colt by thoroughbred sire no stripes 



1902 foaled a zebroid 



1904 foaled a colt by half-blood sire no stripes 



1906 foaled a colt by half-blood sire no stripes 



1907 foaled a colt by half-blood sire no stripes 



1905 foaled a xcbrnid (artificial insemina- 



tion) 



1906 foaled a zeljroid (artificial insemina- 



tion) 



1907 foaled a zebroid (artifnial insemina- 



tion) 

 1908 to 1912 foaled five colts none striped 



foaled a zebroid 



foaled colt by thoroughbred sire no stripes 



colt by same sire no stripes 



foaled colt by thoroughbred sire no stripes 



1907 foaled a zebroid 



1908 foaled a colt no stripes 



1909 foaled a colt no stripes 



191 1 fnnlfd a colt no stripes 



1902 foaled a zebroid 



190.? to 1907 foaled fmir colts by half-blood sire. . . none striped 



Armida (bright bay) 

 born in 1899 



Priimikha (brown) born 

 in 1898 



Aida (piebald) born ini 

 1902 1 



Zlodeika (dark brown) 

 br.rn in 1890 



