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more especially in cross-breeding, the unexpected often 

 happens. We are too apt to forget that, even when the 

 sire belongs to a different and very distinct species, the 

 progeny may take after the cross-bred dam. It was 

 evident soon after Brenda (Fig. 12) was foaled that she 

 differed not a little both from Romulus and Remus. In 

 the first place her ears looked extremely long ; they were 

 at birth six and a half inches, only a quarter of an inch 



Fig. 12. 



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Brenda : two months old. 



shorter than the ears of her dam, and quite as long as those 

 of her sire; at six months they were seven and a half 

 inches. On the other hand, the head is relatively short — 

 shorter than the head of a twelve-hands Iceland pony's 

 hybrid. The height at the withers was forty-three inches, 

 one inch more than in Remus, and four inches more than 

 in the Iceland hybrid. At birth Brenda, apart from her 

 ears, looked not unlike an ordinary bay foal, but soon 



