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In 1823 the mare had again a foal by an Arab staLion, and 

 this also showed some quagga characters. 



It may well be asked: If this was not telegony, what was it ? 

 But the case is not quite so satisfactory as it seems. Settegast * 

 remarks that the drawing made of the foal with the alleged 

 quagga characters merely shows indistinct dark stripes on the 

 neck, withers, and legs, and that similar stripes not uncommonly 

 occur on pure-bred foals. A stiff mane may also occur as a 

 variation in horses. It is possible that the alleged quagga-like 

 characters had nothing to do with the original quagga sire, but 

 were reappearances of latent ancestral characters. 



Sanson (1893) sets another case against Lord Morton's. A bay 

 mare had by two different stallions seven foals of a uniform 

 colour, and then by a third stallion a foal more zebra-like than 

 Lord Morton's. To which Delage adds that this eighth foal was 

 pommelled grey a colour with which zebra-like stripes are 

 not infrequently associated. 



Cornevin cites a breeder from the Pyrenees to the effect that 

 a mare served by an ass and producing a mule was thereafter 

 served by a horse and cast a foal which had hoofs more mule- 

 like than horse-like. But this is too vague to be of much use, 

 and besides, " asinine " variations sometimes occur in horses 

 where there has been no hybridising (Sanson, 1893). 



Moreover, the opposite result has been often obtained. Sette- 

 gast (1888) gives the case of four stud mares which were served 

 by asses and bore mules. They were subsequently served by 

 horses, and the foals showed no asinine traits. 



3. Representative Alleged Cases of Telegony 



Man. Herbert Spencer cites from Flint's Human Physiology 

 (1888) the case of a white woman who had intercourse with a negro 

 and afterwards with a white man. There were some negrc-pecu- 



* Thierzucht, Berslau, Bd. i, 1878, pp. 223-34. 



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