INDEX 



531 



Pedrarias, 269, 271 



Pegasus, 252 ; earliest representation 



of, bis birthplace, 245 ; myth of, 



289 

 Pegu, pony, 141; ponies, 448 

 Pelasgians, 107 

 Pelopidas, bis dream, 300 

 Peloponnesus, horses of, 301 

 Pelops, 251 



Percberon horse, 2, 325 sq. ; grey, 402 

 Pericles, 295 

 Periplus, 158 

 Perissodactyles, 5 

 Perseus, 252 

 Persia, asses of, 149 ; good Turcoman 



horses, 132 ; horses of, 160 ; included 



Carmania, 47 

 Persian, 381 ; horse, 175, 431 ; horses, 



of Middle Ages, 188 ; kings, their 



horses, 190; stallions, 350 

 Persian Gulf, 149 

 Persians, 192 ; ancient, rode habitually, 



190 ; used scythed chariots, 247 ; 



venerate white horses, 115 

 Peru, horses of, 270 

 Peter the Great, 351 

 Petra, 202 



Petrie, Prof., 215, 233 

 Phalanx, Macedonian, 303 

 Phalios, 'bald,' 328 

 Pharaoh, 204 

 Pharusians, 240 

 Pheidias, horses of, 297 

 Phenacodus, 6 

 Philip II of Macedon, 302 ; horses of, 



303 

 Philippopolis, 106 

 Phillips, Mr Lort, shot Somali ass, 



54 

 Phoenix, bay, 295 

 Phrygia, 49 

 Piebald chestnut, 435 

 Piebalds, 142, 154, 175 

 Pied horses, 348-50 

 Pietrement, M., 3, 30, 35, 89; his 



E. c. mongolicus, 229 ; on Aryan 



horse, 151 

 Pigafetta, description of zebra, 59 

 Pinzgauer breed, 346 

 Pirogues, 273 



Pit, pre-orbital ; see Fossa and De- 

 pression 

 Pizarro, 270, 271; his horses, 269 

 Platnauer, Mr, 97 

 Pleistocene, 7 

 Pliny, why mares' manes are hogged, 



130 

 Pliocene, 6 

 Plotius, Aulus, 203 

 Plough-bullocks, 414 



Ploughing, with mules, 113; with oxen, 

 113, 354 



Plumes on horses, 195 



Plutarch, 300 



Pocock, Mr R. I., 66, 72, 75, 76, 436, 

 470, 508-10 ; on chestnuts of Gr^vy 

 zebra, 59 ; on Gr^vy zebra, ib. ; on 

 pre-orbital fossa in male Grant's 

 zebra, 143 ; on quaggas, 74 ; on 

 reversal of hair on spine of mountain 

 zebra, 63 



Poictiers, battle of, 333 



Pole, 224 ; covered with red leather, 

 228 



Poliakoff, 26 



Polidore Virgil, 359 



Polo, Marco, 134, 447; notes Tartar 

 horses, 134; on Indian horses, 146; 

 praises Turcoman horses, 133 



Polyphyletic law, 7 



Pompey, 203 



Ponies, 351 ; black Hebridean, black 

 Highland, 403 ; Connemara, 402sqq., 

 408; Exmoor, 399; Faroe, 352, 416; 

 Iceland, 352, 416 ; Irish, of Solutre 

 type, 409; Javanese, 11 ; Norwegian, 

 847; of Austria, 345; of Bosnia, 345; 

 of Denmark, grey, 344 ; of Kurdistan, 

 160 ; of Oeland, 348 ; of Russia, 345 ; 

 of Sulu, 11; pony, Connemara, 388; 

 Mongolian, described, 138 ; race, 

 Mongolian, ib. 



Portuguese in Congo and Angola, 55 



Porus, has both chariots and horse- 

 men, 153 



Poseidon, 301 



Posidonius, 257, 401 



Potidaea, coin of, 301 



Pottery from Daphnae, 244 



Powerscourt, Viscount, the late, 367 



Praetors, 307 



Prairie, horses, colours of, 265; western, 

 horses of, 264 sqq. 



Prejvalsky, his horse, 26; foal, woolly 

 coat, 37; foals, described, 27; foals, 

 their colours, 33; horse, 13, 38, 

 152, 425; description of, 26, 41; 

 picture of, ib. ; indomitable temper 

 of, 473 ; considered a mule, 35 ; its 

 relation to tarpan and to Equus 

 caballus, 41 ; horses, young, re- 

 semble dwarf cart-horses, 36; not 

 all genuine, 40 



Premolars, functional, in some Java- 

 nese and Sulu ponies, 142 



Pre-orbital depression, in horse skulls, 

 159, 469, 470, 476 



Prescott, W. H., 267, 270 



Price, of chariot, 214 ; of hogs, 273 ; 

 of horses, 150, 214, 218, 273, 296, 



