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the horse is easily altered. In one of my Arabs (Benazrek) 

 the mane hangs lank and close to the neck, but in another 

 (once a polo pony) the mane six months ago was short, 

 stiff, and upright, while now that it is longer it arches 

 upwards free from the neck; some months hence it will 

 doubtless hang lank and close to the neck. Sir Gore 

 Ouseley's stud-groom alleged the filly's mane had always 

 been short, stiff, and upright ; but this, it seems to me, is 

 proving too much, and the point at issue is far too im- 

 portant to rest on an allegation of this kind. 



The necessity of repeating the Morton-Ouseley experi- 

 ment with a well-striped zebra became still more evident 

 when I read in 1895 Mr. (afterwards Sir Everett) 

 Millais' 'Two Problems of Eeproduction,'^ in which he 

 states : " I may further adduce the fact that in a breed- 

 ing experience of nearly thirty years' standing, during 

 which 1 have made all sorts of experiments with pure- 

 bred dams and wild sires, and returned them afterwards to 

 pure sires of their own breeds, I have never seen a case 

 of telegony, nor has my breeding stock suffered. I may 

 further adduce the fact that I have made over fifty 

 experiments for Professor Romanes to induce a case 

 of telegony in a variety of animals — dogs, ducks, hens, 

 pigeons, &c., — and I have hopelessly failed, as has every 

 single experimenter who has tried to produce the phe- 

 nomenon." t 



The Hybrid "Romulus" and his Sire and Dam. 



Having made the necessary arrangements, I purchased 

 in the spring of 1895 two female zebras, a number of 

 mares of different sizes, colours, and breeds, an Arab 

 horse, and later, a handsome Burchell's zebra {Equus 

 hurchelli) .% For months no progress was made, and for 



* "Our Dogs" Publishing Company, Manchester, 1S95. 



f The late Sir Everett Millais, like Romanes, believed that telegony was 

 possible, but he thought it was "exceedingly rare, and therefore abnormal " 

 (loc. cit., p. 20). 



% This zebra might be placed in Mr. Pocock's sub-species Chapmani. 

 (See Pocock's paper on " Tlie Species of Zebras," ' Ann. and Mag. of 



