288 THE TANGUM HORSE. 



the east, being unknown in the Moluccas and New 

 Guinea. Next to Java, it is most abundant in 

 Celebes, where the best of all the Saran race are 

 said to exist, and where alone it is found in a wild 

 state. We find horses, again, in Borneo and at the 

 Pliilippine Islands. 



The different breeds vary in colour according to 

 their localities; at Achin the ponies are piebald, 

 but this distinction gradually disappears : the Bat- 

 tas are mostly mouse-colour : in Java they are bays 

 and greys ; roan and mouse-coloured are esteemed, 

 and the worst are black or chestnut : duns, bays, 

 and greys form the majority of the Bima breed, 

 and greys and bays almost exclusively constitute 

 those of Celebes and the Philippines. In Mr. More's 

 notices of the Indian Archipelago, from which the 

 above account of the Saran race is almost entirely 

 extracted, some considerations are affixed in proof 

 that the original breeds must have come from the 

 main land of Asia : our own views, repeatedly re- 

 ferred to in the foregoing pages, certainly coincide 

 with his, and shoAv by the marks of the races, from 

 what quarter it is likely they were first imported. 



THE TANGUM, PIEBALD, OR SKEWBALD HORSE. 



Equus varius. Nobis. 



PLATE VH. 



This form of the domesticated horse, which Vy-e 



have repeatedly pointed out to notice, appears to 



cl^im a distinct specific existence, in as much as the 



