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coloured foal by a thorouglibred chestnut horse out of a 

 bay half- Arab mare, the flanks, croup, hind quarters, and 

 thigh are marked all over by vei*y distinct " narrow 

 stripes," some of which appear of a different colour from 

 the intermediate spaces. But all these apparent stripes, 

 whether they run parallel with or at nearly right angles 

 to the direction of the hair, are due to almost hairless 

 spaces separating relatively long and thick ridges. 



In addition to formiug narrow ridges and furrows, the 

 hair may be so disposed in some foals as to produce wavy 

 bands across the croup, and faint lines at nearly right 



Fig. 46. 



angles to these across the hind quarters. The fairly wide 

 bands across the croup I have especially noticed in half- 

 bred bay foals. These bands, which are never due to 

 pigment, and are only seen in certain lights, fairly accu- 

 rately correspond in their position with the cross-bars of 

 the gridiron of the mountain zebra. 



Evidently, in considering whether any given foal is 

 striped, the narrow tracks of hair, especially evident in the 

 vicinity of the flank feather, the wavy bands across the 

 croup, and the faint bands across the hind quarters, will 



