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THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 



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pure Icelandic blood 1 . " In the case of the Faroes the 

 Norwegian stallions have only been introduced, apparently, 

 within the last ten or twelve years, and in spite of this 

 admixture, of which it does not appear that Prof. Ewart was 

 aware, the general characters of the majority of the Faroe and 



FIG. 15. Black Hebridean pony without hock callosities. 



Icelandic ponies are those of the ' Celtic type ' (Fig. 13). This 

 was made evident by an examination of a number of Faroe ponies 



1 " The Horse in Iceland and the Faroes," Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., Vol. xii. 

 (1903), pp. 298-9. Prof. Ewart doubts "if Norwegian ponies have recently 

 been introduced into Iceland." 



