48 THE PENYCUIK EXPERIMENTS. 



in length, aucl it is now no longer upright ; the posterior 

 half hangs over to the right side, the part between and in 

 front of the ears forms a thick forelock, while the inter- 

 mediate portion hangs to the left side. 



Norette with her short head, peculiarly tattooed face, 

 and the heavy mane hanging partly to one side and partly 

 to the other, looks very quaint, and seems to differ quite 

 as much from her sire as she does from her dam the black 

 Shetland pony. At seven months the coat was very heavy, 

 the long hairs of the body measuring over three inches, 

 while the hairs over the brow were nearly two inches in 

 length. If Norette develops after the fashion of Romulus, 

 she will — a year hence — be a compact small striped pony 

 from 11 to 11*2 hands in height. As is the case with 

 Romulus, there is nothing about Norette that suggests 

 either an ordinary mule or a hinny. She has excellent, 

 well-formed feet, only a few short hairs at the fetlock, and 

 not a rudiment of warts on the hind legs. 



The Hybrid " Heckla." 



Heckla's dam is a twelve hands skewbald Iceland pony. 

 There is so much white in this pony (Tundra), and the 

 yellow is so pale, that I thought her hybrid foal would be 

 nearly as light as a pure-bred zebra. As it happens, 

 Heckla is the darkest of all the hybrids, and the stripes 

 were at birth as obscure as in the ''Clydesdale'^ hybrid 

 Brenda. As she lay by her dam shortly after birth, she 

 looked like an overgrown hare with an unusually long- 

 head and relatively long ears. From the first her coat 

 has consisted of long coarse hairs, and the warts on the 

 front legs are prominent, as in her dam. Measuring 32^ 

 in. at birth, she was 43 in. at six months, and is now 

 (January 12th) 43|^ in. ; the circumference of the knee 

 being 9^ in., and the fore-shank 5 A in. Though Heckla 

 has always carried a heavy coat, and is dark in colour 

 with light tips to her ears, she generally agrees with 

 Romulus in her build and markings ; but her action 



