THE BIRTH OF A ZEBRA HYBRID. 



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tlie fetlock and pasterns are only represented by faint, 

 short, oblique bars, which fail to reach the inner surface. 

 As in the zebra, there are narrow incomplete '^ shadow " 

 stripes dividing the broad spaces between the well-marked 

 dark bands of the thigh and upper part of the leg. 



Without giving further details it will be evident, with 



Matopo. 



the help of the figures, that the hybrid is elaborately 

 striped, and that it profoundly differs from an ordinary 

 foal. If the figures of Romulus are compared with Figs. 

 1 and 6— reproductions of photographs of his sire Matopo — 

 numerous differences in the disposition and in the number 

 of the stripes will be readily noticed. Should the next 

 foal, as was said to be the case in the purely bred second 



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