78 THE MENDEL JOURNAL 



In addition to the English Stnd Book, the 

 German Stud Book contains only one exception. It 

 is there stated that from the mating of the chestnut 

 stallion " Botschafter I.," out of the chestnut mare 

 "Legality," there resulted the bay foal "Longo- 

 barde," which died when it was six months old. 

 As soon as 1 drew attention in the German sporting 

 newspaper Sportwelt to this erroneous statement, 

 pointing out that the entry certainly must 

 be a mistake, the breeder of " Longobarde," 

 namely, the Prussian Government's official at their 

 Stud, at Graditz, came forward with a published 

 statement that " Longobarde " never was a bay, and 

 that neither the veterinary surgeon who assisted the 



