FORM OF THP: head 



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Fiff. 33.— Arched Face 



conformation, respiration becomes loud under exertion, and may even emit 

 a distinctly roaring noise. 



Although not defects in the sense of interfering with function and 

 utility, there are to be noticed certain extremes and irregularities in the 

 lines of conformation of the head 

 ■which seriously detract from its 

 beauty both of symmetry and ex- 

 pression. 



In this connection the face may 

 be immoderately and uniformly 

 convex from the forehead aljove to 

 the nostrils below, when it is said 

 to be arched (fig. 33) — a type of 

 conformation at one time common in 

 the English draught-horse, but now 

 f;ist disappearing under the segis of 

 the show-yard and the stud-book. 

 Undue prominence commencing be- 

 tween the eyes and extending to the same point constitutes the Roman 

 Nose (fig. 34), to which the same observations apply. The reverse con- 

 dition, in which the face is hollowed, is sometimes spoken of as dislied 



(Plate Y, fig. 1). 



In some extreme instances of this 

 latter formation, function is more or les.s 

 interfered with under severe exertion, and 

 the powers of endurance are in some 

 degree curtailed. Moreover, such animals 

 are often said to be roarers in consequence 

 of the narrowed nostrils rendering the 

 Ijreathing loud and coarse. They are not, 

 however, roarers in the proper sense of 

 the term. 



The face may be rendered irregular 

 and even unsightly by an undue promi- 

 nence of the lower forehead, which it 

 may be noted is usually associated with 

 narrowness of the part and gives the face a heavy, ill-natured expres- 

 sion. Especially is this so where the eyes are small and laid back in 

 the orbit. A rise in the face between the eyes (fig. 35), when consider- 

 able, not onlv aff"ects the contour of the face and detracts from its beauty, 

 but is regarded by some as significant of temper if not of vice, the truth 



Fi^. 34. — Roman Nose 



