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of a half-bred trotting pony and the zebra, and was beautifully 
striped, not only on the legs and neck, but also on the 
haunches. 
Before passing from these hybridization experiments among 
mammals, a digression must be made as to how instances have 
occurred in which the male influence (that has first left its 
impression on the female) has, to a certain extent, been con- 
continued in the subsequent offspring of the mother. A young 
mare was covered by a quagga, by which it had a female hybrid, 
subsequently it had a filly and afterwards a colt by a fine black 
Arabian stallion, but both of these latter resembled the quagga 
in the dark line along the back, the stripes across the forehead, 
and the bars across the legs. In the filly the mane was short 
and stiff like that of the quagga, in the colt it was long but so 
stiff as to arch upwards and hang clear of the sides of the neck, 
but in other respects these young were nearly pure Arabians. 
In this instance some impression must have been made on the 
reproductive organs of the mare at the first cross, and which 
was continued through subsequent ones. 
Bell noticed the case of a small mare which was turned into 
a paddock in the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens in company 
with a white male ass and a hybrid between the zebra and the 
ass. She had a foal which was distinctly marked with black 
stripes across the legs, and which were supposed to be good 
evidence that the male parent of the offspring had been the 
hybrid. 
Among birds hybrids have been observed, when in a wild 
state, or in a domesticated or semi-domesticated condition, and 
this in several families. In the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society, 1849, will be found recorded the crossing of two species 
of crowned pigeons. Goura victoria, and G. coronata, which 
occurred in the Gardens : one young one was hatched September 
18th, but died September 17th. At this period, two other 
columbine birds existed alive in the collection, the produce of 
the male Hetopistes migratorius and the female Turtur risorius 
(page 171). On June 23rd, 1887, Dr Giinther exhibited at the 
rooms of the Society a hybrid raised between a male white 
