450 THE ORIGIN OF THE LIBYAN HORSE [CH. 



19. Two bay English carriage-horses had each a black 

 spinal stripe ; one of them had on each shoulder a light 

 shoulder stripe, and the other had a broad, black, ill-defined 

 stripe running obliquely half-way down each shoulder ; neither 

 had leg stripes 1 . 



20. A bay Highland cob belonging to Prof. Ewart had a 

 shoulder stripe nearly a foot in length, and a neck stripe that 

 extended quite two-thirds across the neck, and six short stripes 

 on the body behind the shoulder stripe 2 . 



21. The offspring of dark Highland pony sires not unfre- 

 quently show markings. 



22. Darwin had seen marks on the forehead of a fully-grown 

 fallow-dun, cob-like horse (which had also a conspicuous spinal 

 stripe and its front legs well barred), marked similar to those on 

 the forehead of his own foal. 



23. A bright fallow-dun cob had its front legs transversely 

 barred on the under side in the most conspicuous manner. 



24. A bright fallow-dun colt, fully three parts thorough- 

 bred, with very plain transverse stripes on the legs. 



25. A small, purely-bred, light fallow-dun Welsh pony had 

 a spinal stripe, a single transverse stripe on each leg, and three 

 shoulder stripes; the posterior stripe corresponding with that 

 on the shoulder of the ass was the longest, whilst the two 

 anterior parallel stripes arising from the mane decreased in 

 length in a reverse manner to that in the next instance. 



26. A rather large, lightly-built, fallow-dun, Devonshire 

 pony 3 , with a conspicuous stripe along the back, and with light 

 transverse stripes on the under sides of its front legs, and with 

 four parallel stripes on each shoulder. Of these four stripes the 

 posterior one was very minute and faint : the anterior one, on 

 the other hand, was long and broad, but interrupted in the 

 middle and truncated at its lower extremity, with the anterior 

 angle produced into a long tapering point. "The shoulder stripe 

 of the ass occasionally presents exactly the same appearance." 



27. A dark leaden, mouse-coloured pony had leg stripes, 

 but not very conspicuous. 



1 Darwin, Variation, Vol. i. p. 60. 2 Op. cit. p. 105. 



3 Variation, Vol. i. pp. 610-11. 



