446 THE ORIGIN OF THE LIBYAN HORSE [CH. 



5. Mr Edwards had seen a nearly thoroughbred chestnut 

 horse which had the spinal stripe and distinct bars on the legs 1 . 



6. Col. Hamilton Smith 2 speaks of dun horses in the 

 sierras of Spain which have a spinal stripe, and we have found 

 the descendants of Spanish horses in Mexico and the Western 

 States frequently of a dun colour marked with stripes (p. 265). 

 But we have seen that all the horses of Spain from before the 

 Christian era were more or less impregnated with Libyan blood 

 (p. 256). 



7. Out of 300 South American horses imported into Madras 

 many had transverse stripes on the legs and short shoulder 

 stripes 3 . The most strongly marked individual was a mouse- 

 dun with the shoulder stripe slightly forked. 



We have shown that the Andalusian horses are almost 

 wholly Libyan in blood, and that other Spanish horses are 

 largely imbued with the same blood, and also that the South 

 American Pampas horses are descended from some Andalusian 

 horses introduced by the early Spanish settlers. 



8. The Karadagh horses, which are the best native horses 

 of Armenia to-day, were originally the dun horses of the 

 southern slopes of the Caucasus. Many of them have been 

 recently crossed with Russian blood (p. 193), which is of course 

 largely Libyan, and probably have had much of the same 

 strain through Arab and other channels. They are usually 

 bay or chestnut with black manes and tails. They all have a 

 dorsal stripe about an inch broad from the mane to the tail 4 . 



9. In the north-western parts of India striped horses of 

 more than one breed are very common. In Kattywar the 

 native horses are usually of a rufous-grey or khaki colour. At 

 one time Kattywar horses were not considered pure unless 

 decorated with a dorsal band and bars across the legs. Some- 

 times in addition there were stripes on the neck, forehead and 

 withers 5 . The Kattywar horses are often fifteen or sixteen 

 hands in height, and are well, but lightly built. 



1 Darwin, Variation, Vol. i. p. 60. 2 The Horse, p. 275. 



3 Darwin, Variation, Vol. i. p. 61. 



4 Hayes, Points of the Horse, pp. 610-11. 



5 Ewart, Exper. Contributions, p. 21. 



