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own knowledge, in one case where the father was tall 

 and the mother short, the children, six in number, are 

 all tall. In another instance, the father being short 

 and the mother tall, the children, seven in number, 

 are all of lofty stature. In the third instance, the 

 mother being tall and the father short, the greater 

 portion of the family are short." * 



The resemblance of the hinny to the mule, noticed 

 by M. Colin, has likewise been observed in this coun- 

 try. Mr. B. F. Cockrell, of Nashville, Tennessee, 

 says : " In the year 1850 I bred a dozen jennets to a 

 thorough-bred son of imported Priam. The following 

 spring I had six mules foaled. In 1851 I again bred 

 these same jennets to the same stallion, and had four 

 mules foaled, three of which lived and attained ma- 

 turity. I often asked visitors to point out the hinnies 

 from the mules (there being other mules on the plan- 

 tation), and in no instance did I ever find a man that 

 could distinguish them from other mules. 



" I shipped them, with forty other mules, to my 

 father's cotton-plantation in Mississippi, where they 

 did the same routine of duty with the other mules, 

 and remained in all respects perfectly incognito as to 

 color, feet, head, voice, and size, to their death." 5 



A correspondent of The Country Gentleman, in 

 reference to the hinnies bred by Mr. Cockrell, says : 

 " I have seen but one hinny, to my knowledge. It 

 was before a wagon, alongside of a mule, last year. I 

 examined it closely, but was unable to see any structu- 

 ral peculiarities to distinguish one from the other. It 



1 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, vol. xx., p. 295. 



2 The Country Gentleman, 1876, p. 170. 



