394 THE HORSE 



foals (17 horses and 15 fillies) which were reared by common 

 Mongolian pony foster-mothers. This was the first of two 

 consignments successfully landed in this country. The illus- 

 trations (the Frontispiece, and Plate LXXXVIII.) are from 

 photographs, taken in 1906, of four-year-old specimens 

 retained at Woburn Park, where two varieties of colouring 

 are represented in what is believed to be one type of the breed. 

 The head, the neck, and the back half-way down the ribs are 

 of a russety-brown colour. A dark brown dorsal band of vary- 

 ing breadth and distinctness extends from the short upright 

 hog-mane into the hair on the upper part of the tail. The 

 beard or fringe under the jaw is coloured like the upper part 

 of the body, but on the belly, thence half-way up the sides, 

 and on the buttocks the hair shades ofT into a stained white. 

 In two or three cases, stripes on the shoulders, shorter than 

 those of a donkey, descend from the withers but incline more 

 forward at the points. Alternate dark and light sections of 

 the hog-mane indicate a tendency to banding on the neck. 

 There is no forelock, only the termination of the mane appears 

 like a peak between the ears, which are of good size but short 

 and horselike, tapered by gracefully curved lines to a sharp 

 point. The neck is massive and of good length, carrying 

 a large but extremely well-proportioned and attractive head, 

 broad between the eyes, full and square at the muzzle, which 

 in one of the two varieties represented is surrounded with 

 a mealy ring or broad rim of light-coloured short hair, with 

 frequently a dark peak descending into it above the nostrils. 

 A smaller number have instead a narrower tan-coloured ring, 

 which is correlated with a darker shade in the general colour 

 of the hairy coat. 



The body is thick-set, and the back straight and strongly 

 coupled with deep, rounded ribs and a good heart-girth. The 

 withers are low and the shoulders upright. The hind quarters 

 are extremely short, very broad behind, flat on the plate, 

 drooping at the croup, and generally formed like those of the 

 common donkey. The tail with one or two exceptions is set 

 on low, and, the hair on the upper part of it being shed 

 annually when the winter coat falls off, it assumes during 

 summer the characteristic appearance of the tail of a donkey. 

 Both fore and hind limbs are well formed and well set on, and 

 are furnished with chestnuts. The joints are of good size and 



