GENERAL PRINCIPLES QJ?^8KSBG. 67 



the time in a monthly journal then under my 

 charge, I herewith reproduce as the most thor- 

 ough treatise upon this interesting subject I 

 have yet seen: 



Physiologists and breeders have long noticed that the in- 

 fluence of the sire is not always confined to his immediate 

 offspring, but that the subsequent progeny of the same 

 female by other males often reproduce in a remarkable man- 

 ner the personal traits of the first sire and his produce. All 

 quadrupeds show this tendency in a greater or less degree. 



We find the statement made by the immortal Haller: that 

 where a mare had borne a mule by an ass and afterward a 

 foal by a horse, the foal exhibited traces of the ass. The 

 same thing has been noticed by Becker, Haussman, Low and 

 others. Lord Moreton bred a hybrid between a young chest- 

 nut mare (seven-eighths Arabian) and a quagga. The hybrid 

 had the bristly mane, striped body and large head of its 

 sire. One or two years later this mare was covered by a 

 black Arabian horse, and the resulting foal had the erect, 

 short, bristly mane, the dun color, and stripes on neck, body 

 and limbs of the quagga. A third foal, produced two years 

 later, got by the same Arabian horse, still showed the same 

 marks of the quagga. This case is all the more striking in 

 that the mane of the Arab is especially soft and silky and 

 lies flat on the side of the neck, and that the Arabian horse 

 has never been known to show a striped marking of the body. 

 A case entirely similar is recorded by Harvey : A mare of 

 Sir Gore Ouseley's was bred to a zebra, producing a hybrid, 

 and in the two succeeding years was put to two thorough- 

 bred horses, but the foals in both cases were striped and 

 partook of the character of the zebra. In the Royal Stud at 

 Hampton Court a number of mares were bred to the horse 

 Colonel, and the following year to the horse Acteon, but the 

 progeny of the last horse bore unequivocal marks of the 

 horse Colonel, the sire of their half-brothers and sisters. 

 Again, a colt belonging to Earl Suffield, got by Laurel, 

 strongly resembled the horse Camel by which his dam had 

 had a foal the preceding year. 



