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and brought forth cattle ring-streaked, speckled and spotted."* 

 Other instances of a similar description, are recorded by modern 

 writers, clearly proving that the feelings of the mother may in- 

 fluence at least the color of her progeny. A striking case of the 

 kind is given by Sir Everard Home.f An English mare, which 

 had never been bred from before, was covered by a quagga, — a 

 species of wild ass from Africa, which is marked somewhat like 

 the Zebra. This happened in the year 1815, in the park of Earl 

 Morton, in Scotland. The mare was only covered once, and the 

 produce was a hybrid, marked like the father. The hybrid re- 

 mained with the dam four months, when it was weaned and remo- 

 ved from her sight. She probably saw it again in the early part 

 of 1816, but never afterwards. During the four years following, 

 she had three foals by a black Arabian horse, (having missed 

 once.) They were all marked more or less, like the quagga, and 

 in two of them the resemblance in color, and in the hair of their 

 manes, was very strong. They were distinguished by the dark 

 line along the ridge of the back, the dark stripes across the fore- 

 head, and the dark bars across the back part of the legs. Mr. 

 Mayo,| mentions that a similar instance was observed by Mr. 

 Giles in a litter of pigs, which resembled in color, a former litter 

 by a wild boar. 



Similar facts are frequently observed, and many such are alluded 

 to by modern writers. Mr. Milne,§ tells of a pregnant cat be- 

 longing to him, the end of whose tail was trodden on with sc 

 much violence, as to cause intense pain. She had five young onei 

 perfect in every respect except the tail, which was in each of them 

 distorted near the end, and enlarged into a cartilaginous knob. 

 Haller || remarks, that the young foal of a horse, from a man 

 which, previously, had a mule by an ass, has something asinim 

 in the form of its mouth and lips. Beecherll says, that when i 

 mare has had a mule by an ass, and afterwards a foal by a horse 

 the foal bears evident marks of the mother having retained som( 

 ideas of her former paramour, the ass. 



• Genesis, chap. xxx. verses 37-8-9. 



t Philosoph. Transac. 1821. p. 21. and Lect. on Comp. Anat. vol. iii., p. 307. 



X Outlines of Physiology, p. 376. 



^ Transac. of Linnten Soc, of London. 



H Element. Physiol, viii., 104. 



U Physic. Subterran. Lips., 1073. 



