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roughly shown in Fig. 46 (a\ and the hog-mane was divided 

 into grey and white bands, just as it is in the Zebra. Then a 

 brown Carriage-horse, reticulated with black, had the upper ridge 

 of the neck as shown roughly in Fig. 46 (), each space having 

 a spot of a lighter colour than the ground-colour. 



But the best example I have seen of stripes in the domestic 

 Horse was on the 2ist January 1894, in Piccadilly, opposite 



b 



FIG. 46. (a) Hog-mane of a grey dappled Pony, Islington Horse Show, May 1893 ; 

 (b) markings on the neck of a dappled brown Carriage-horse. 



Berkeley Street. A milkman's cart had a Pony of a light- 

 bay or dun colour. The Pony had broadish black stripes on 

 his neck, shoulders, and flanks ; he had also faint transverse 

 stripes above his wrists and heels. A rough sketch of him is 

 given in Fig. 47, which I took down at the time. 



I have noticed that Ponies are oftener abnormally marked 

 than larger-sized Horses. They appear to have more direct Ass 

 and Zebra blood in them than the larger and more highly modi- 

 fied and artificially selected Horses. 



Mr. Louis Robinson l suggests that the fossil Horse was about 



1 North American Review ', April 1894, p. 483. 



