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IRREGULARITIES OF THE DENTAL APPARATUS 721 



1. Number , 721 



2. Form 726 



3. Union of Two Teeth 726 



4. Form of the Central Enamel 727 



5. Depth of the Infundibulum and its External Dental Cavity 729 



6. Defect of Length or Excess of Width of one of the Jaws 736 



7. Excessive or Insufficient Wear 738 



8. Wear resulting from Cribbing 752 



9. Employment of Fraudulent Mean's 762 



SECTION SIXTH. 



CONSIDERATIONS RELATIVE TO THE DESCRIPTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF 

 THE HORSE . . 771 



CHAPTER I. 



THE COATS 771 



1. Coats properly so called 771 



\ 1. Primitive Coats 773 



A. Simple Coats (Black, Sorrel) 773 



B. Composite Coats (Isabella Bay, Mouse-Color) 775 



C. Mixed Coats (Fox-Color) 777 



\ 2. Derived Coats (Gray, White, Flea-bitten, Roan) 778 



\ 3. Conjugate Coats (Piebald, Conjugate, Isabella) . . . 782 



Spotted or Marbled Coats 784 



Synoptical Table of the Coats 784 



2. Peculiarities of the Coats 785 



A. General 786 



B. Of the Head 794 



C. Of the Body 796 



D. Of the Members 797 



Synoptical Table of the Peculiarities of the Coats 800 



3. Causes of the Modifications of the Coats 799 



4. Indices furnished by the Coats and their Peculiarities as to the Qualities 



of Horses 803 



CHAPTER II. 



THE HEIGHT 806 



CHAPTER III. 



CERTIFICATE OF DESCRIPTION - - 813 



