12 THE NATURALIST. 



the length of time they will carry a rider at great speed, and under great restriction of 

 food, and the number of years they endure, that for their climate at least they are fully 

 competent to accomplish all that is desirable, and even execute tasks which are not 

 always believed of them. The quarters of an Arab are deep, the muscles of the fore- 

 arm and thigh prominent ; the tail set on high, with a middling proportion of sweeping 

 hair ; the skin on all parts of the body thin, presenting veins above the surface ; and the 

 hoofs, rather high, are hard and tough. 



Prom the broad forehead and space between the ears, judges assert their greater 

 courage and intelligence, which, aided by education and kind treatment, they certainly 

 possess beyond all other horses ; and in sobriety, temper and docility, none can be com- 

 pared to them. See Plate, No. 1, Marengo Arabe, once the property of the Emperor 

 Napoleon ; white breed of the bay stock. 



THE SHRUBAT-UR-REECH, OR DRINKER OF THE WIND. 



On the sandy plains, south of Atlas, are the Drinkers of the Wind, reared by the 

 Mograbins of the West ; they are brown or gray, rather low, shaped like greyhounds, 

 destitute of flesh, or, as M. Davidson terms it, like a bag of bones j but their spirit is 

 high, and endurance of fatigue prodigious. See Plate, No. 2. 



THE ENGLISH RACE-HORSE. 



In shape, the race-horse, if we except his superior stature, is very like the noblest 

 Arab, with similar eyes, ears, and head gracefully set on the neck ; long oblique shoul- 

 ders, high withers, powerful quarters, hocks well placed under their weight, vigorous 

 arms and flat legs, short from the knee to the pasterns, these long and elastic ; the tail 

 placed high, not superabundantly furnished with long hair, and the mane likewise rather 

 thin and drooping ; the colors of the blood-horse are bay, chestnut, brown, black, and 

 gray, but never dun, Isabella, or roan ; the black itself being a residue of ancient foreign 

 alloy, derived either from the old English, the Spanish, or Barbary breeds. Such is the 

 blood-horse racer. See Plate, No. 3, the English race-horse Eclipse. 



THE SCOTTISH, OR SHETLAND PONY. 



Some of which scarcely exceed in size the stature of a large dog, and have been actu- 

 ally carried in a gig. Yet there are among them many handsome shaggy little animals, 

 with huge manes and abundance of tail j they are of all colors, but it is not difficult to 

 perceive the original dun stock as forming the parent race. See Plate, No. 4. 



THE TANGUM PIEBALD PRIMEVAL STOCK OF TIBET. 



This form of the domesticated horse appears to claim a distinct specific existence, in- 

 asmuch as the typical animal is found with its characteristic marks in a state perfectly 

 wild, and it appears unmixed with wild horses of other shape or colors. See Plate, No. 5. 



CRISP-HAIRED HORSE PRIMAEVAL BLACK STOCK. 



The Black Stock, reproducing everywhere in Europe horses of a large stature, ex- 

 tends, with little intermixture, down the Danube and through Central Germany, 

 Silesia, Moravia, and Bohemia, to the north side of the Balkan in Turkey. 



See Plate, No. 6. 



