PART II 

 DAPPLED AND STRIPED HORSES 



AND SOME OTHER MAMMALS 



FOR my purpose, under the term Horse I include all animals that 

 come under the denomination of the genus Equus. 



In the Leopards and Tigers it was easy to show the derivation 

 of stripes from spots or rosettes. There is, however, a domestic 

 animal which is differently marked from Leopards. I mean the 

 dappled grey Horse shown in Fig. 34. He has a congener the 

 Zebra in which the stripes are quite phenomenal. In these 

 animals it is not so easy to trace the striping from spotting, 

 although, I think, it can be done. 



There are three distinct varieties of fully dappled Horses like 

 that shown in Fig. 34, viz., the white Horse reticulated with grey, 

 the dun Horse reticulated with black, and the brown Horse also 

 reticulated with black. 1 The markings of the dun or sponge- 

 coloured Horse are very striking. They are all called dappled 

 Horses in the trade grey, dun, brown. I have called the darker 

 pigment reticulation, because it appears as if a net were thrown 

 over the fully dappled Horse, leaving the meshes filled with either 

 white, dun, or brown. 



The dappling or spotting of the domestic Horse is so persistent, 



1 Not improbably the dun and the brown dappled Horses are melanoid variations of 

 the grey dappled Horse. 



