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Mr. Blyth has seen a specimen of the hemioaus with a 

 distinct shoulder-stripe, though it properly has none; and 

 I have been informed by Colonel Poole that the foals of 

 this species are generally striped on the legs, and faintly 

 on the shoulder. The quagga, though so plainly barred 

 like a zebra over the body, is without bars on the legs; 

 but Dr. Gray has figured one specimen with very distinct 

 zebra-like bars on the hocks. 



With respect to the horse, I have collected cases in 

 England of the spinal stripe in horses of the most dis- 

 tinct breeds, and of all colors: transverse bars on the 

 legs are not rare in duns, mouse-duns, and in one in- 

 stance in a chestnut; a faint shoulder-stripe may some- 

 times be seen in duns, and I have seen a trace in a bay 

 horse. My son rnade a careful examination and sketch 

 for me of a dun Belgian carthorse with a double stripe 

 on each shoulder and with leg-stripes; I have myself^ 

 seen a dun Devonshire pony, and a small dun Welsh 

 pony has been carefully described to me, both with three 

 parallel stripes on each shoulder. 



In the northwest part of India the Kattywar breed 

 of hor.ses is so generally striped that, as I hear from 

 Colonel Poole, wi.o examined this breed for the Indian 

 Government, a horse without stripes is not considered as 

 purely-bred. The spine is always striped; the legs are 

 generally barred; and the shoulder stripe, which is some- 

 times double and sometimes treble, is c tmmon; the side 

 of the face, moreover, is sometimes striped. The stripes 

 are often plainest in the foal; and sometimes quite disap- 

 pear in old horses. Colonel Poole has seen both gray 

 and bay Kattywar horses striped when first foaled. I 

 have also reason to suspect, from information given me 



