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well-bred horses ; and that only the five vertical stripes 

 behind the shoulder stripe blend Avith the dorsal band, 

 which, as in many zebras, expands slightly as it crosses 

 the croup. 



Romulus. — In Romulus, and in my other hybrid foals, 

 there are numerous stripes, but, as it happens, the plan of 

 the striping- is in all of them quite unlike that of their sire 

 Matopo. This will be at once evident if the photographs 

 of Romulus (Figs. 31, 32, and 33) are compared with those 

 of his sire (Figs. 17 and 18) . In Romulus (a year old on the 

 12th of August, 1897) the stripes oh the forehead (Fig. 33) 



Fig. 33. 



Koiiiulus : tweuly-seveu days old. 



form a series of rounded instead of, as in his sire, pointed 

 arches (Fig. 19). In two of this year's hj'brids there are 

 similar arches across the forehead, but in the others the 

 pattern of the froutal stripes is somewhat different. 

 Romulus, in having rounded instead of poiuted frontal 



