THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 



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in Thorshavn this summer (1903), for out of eleven individuals 

 only one had large hock callosities, and this animal, though of 

 small size, differed from the others in being exceptionally 

 clumsy in build, with a large head, strongly suggestive of a 

 cart-horse. The remaining ten ponies either had the hock 

 callosities much reduced in size, or, as in the case of two indi- 

 viduals, had no hock callosities. The height of these ponies 



FIG. 16. A Faroe filly *. 



varied from about eleven to thirteen hands. A number of 

 Icelandic ponies, averaging about thirteen hands high, were 

 seen on board ship on their way from Reykjavik to Denmark, 

 and of these six were examined and found to have no hock 

 callosities; while another, which had been imported into the 

 Faroes, had the same peculiarity." 



1 From a photograph kindly given me by Prof. Ewart. 



