STRIPED FOALS 85 



Arthur Cecil's black West Highland ponies. The 

 result was the hybrid Romulus, which on the whole, 

 both in mental disposition and bodily form, took more 

 after his father than his mother. His striping was 

 even more marked than that of his sire. He had a 

 semi -erect mane, which was shed annually. The 

 pattern of the markings, on both body and face, re- 

 semble the stripes on a Somali zebra which, as we 

 have seen, is regarded by Professor Ewart as the 

 most primitive type more than they resembled that 

 of any of Burchell's zebras. The profuse striping is 

 a point of difference between this hybrid and Lord 

 Morton's. The quagga-hybrid was less striped than 

 many dun-coloured horses (see illustration). 



The mother Mulatto was next mated with a highly- 

 bred grey Arab horse, Benazrek. The offspring 

 agreed in all respects with ordinary foals ; it had, 

 however, a certain number of indistinct stripes which 

 could only be detected in certain lights. The stripes 

 were not nearly so clear as in a foal bred by Mr. 

 Darwin from a cross-bred bay mare and a thorough- 

 bred horse, and they disappeared entirely in about 

 five months. 



Mulatto has produced a third foal to Loch Corrie, 

 a sire belonging to the Isle of Rum group of West 

 Highland ponies, and closely resembling its mate. 

 This foal was about as much striped as its immediate 

 predecessor. In both cases the pattern of the stripe 

 differed not only from that of Matopo, the previous 

 sire, but from that of the hybrid Romulus. These 

 two foals seem to lend some support to telegony ; but 

 the evidence which might be drawn from the second 

 of them is destroyed by the fact that the sire, Loch 

 Corrie, has produced foals from two West Highland 

 mares, one brown and one black, and each of these 

 foals has as many and as well-marked stripes as the 

 foal of Mulatto. 



