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ing downwards from behind the withers to a short obscure 

 ventral band ; further, there were obscure bars above the 

 knee and hock^ and across the chest and the upper part of 

 the forearm. When a month old the leg stripes were no 

 longer visible ; when two months old the neck stripes 

 had vanished and only a vestige of the shoulder stripe 

 was left; but even at three months the vertical stripes 

 extending down behind the elbow were quite evident. 



Fig. 42. 



Mule. Dam a flea-bitten New Forest pony. 



Only an indistinct dorsal band now remains. Whether 

 these stripes are due to the previous sire being a donkey 

 it is difficult to decide. In favour of the view that the 

 Forest pony has been infected by the previous but by no 

 means first mate are two facts worth mentioning. I have 

 already given reasons for the belief that in the remote 

 ancestors of the horse long hairs were confined to the lower 

 part of the tail, and that it is only during comparatively 



