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subject brought prominently under the notice of breeders, and 

 were the communication of illustrative cases solicited by Agricul- 

 tural Societies, a large collection of examples, presently known 

 only to individuals, and, therefore, lost to science, might be 

 obtained, sufficient to exhibit the commonness of the fact, and 

 thus enhance its importance in public estimation. 



"The following examples of the phenomenon, and statements 

 respecting it, comprise what is presently known to me in regard 

 to the facts of the subject. 



"1. A young chestnut Mare, seven-eighths Arabian, belong- 

 ing to the Earl of Morton, was covered in 1815, by a Quagga, 

 which is a sort of wild ass, from Africa, and marked somewhat 

 after the manner of the Zebra. The mare was served but once 

 with the Quagga, and, in due time, gave birth to a hybrid, which 

 had distinct marks of the Quagga, in the shape of its head, black 

 bars on the shoulders, &c. In 1817, 1818, and 1821, the same 

 mare was covered by a very fine black Arabian Horse, and pro- 

 duced, successively, three foals, all of which bore unequivocal 

 marks of the Quagga.* 



"A mare belonging to Sir Gore Ouseley was covered by a 

 Zebra, and gave birth to a hybrid. The year following, the same 

 mare was served by a thorough bred horse, and the next suc- 

 ceeding year by another horse. Both the foals thus produced 

 were striped, that is to say, partook of the characters of the 

 Zebra, 



" * The first and the second of these foals are thus described : ' They have the 

 character of the Arabian breed as decidedly as can be expected, where fifteen-six- 

 teenths of the blood are Arabian : and they are fine specimens of that breed ; but 

 both in their color, and in the hair of their manes, they have a striking resemblance 

 to the Quagga. Their color is bay, marked more or less like the Quagga in a darker 

 tint. Both are distinguished by the dark line along the ridge of the back, the dark 

 stripes across the fore-hand, and the dark bars across the back part of the legs. 

 Both their manes are black ; that of the filly is short, stiff, and stands upright ; that 

 of the colt is long, but so stiff as to arch upwards, and to hang clear of the s,ides of 

 the neck ; in which circumstance it resembles that of the hybrid. This is the more 

 remarkable, as the manes of the Arabian breed hang lank, and closer to the neck 

 than those of most others.' " 



