THE COATS. 791 



5. Red Hairs. 



We will mention in this group trout-spotted, truite-mouchete, marbled, 

 wine-eolored, and rusty. 



Truite, or Trout-spotted. The truitures, so named on account 

 of their resemblance to the spots which are found on the trout, are 

 small red or reddish patches, formed of bay and sorrel hairs upon a 

 base of white or gray. They differ from those of the ordinary 

 speckled surface only by their color. 



Examples : silver white, slightly trout-spotted ; light gray, very 

 much trout-spotted upon the head, the sides, and the croup. 



Truite-mouchete. This is only the trout-spotted peculiarity in 

 which a certain number of truitures, or spots, are composed of hairs of 

 a reddish-brown or almost black color, whiclj causes them to resemble 

 the mouchetures, or fly-marks. 



Same examples. 



Marbled. From the above it will be seen that we have called 

 marble spots those analogous with the leopard spots, excepting that 

 they are composed of colored hairs (bay, sorrel, Isabella, or mouse) 

 upon a white or light-gray base. 



Examples : dirty gray, marbled upon the croup ; light silver gray, 

 marbled upon the loins; pied rusty black, marbled upon the left shoulder 

 and the right side of the neck. 



Wine-colored. The wine-color is characterized by the presence 

 of red hairs mixed with those of a gray or white coat, upon any part 

 of the body. Upon the white, the wine-colored points form spots ordi- 

 narily well circumscribed, well denned, and more or less extensive ; 

 upon the gray, these points are less clearly outlined, their color not 

 contrasting so well with the gray. When the wine-tint is generalized 

 over the body the horse is designated wine gray. 



Examples : very light gray, with large wine-colored spot over the back, 

 sides, and abdomen ; ordinary gray, wine-colored over the thighs. 



Rusty. We thus designate the bright-red or yellowish-red color- 

 ation which the hairs of certain regions take, such as around the ejes, 

 the alse of the nose, the axilla, the breast, the elbows, the stifles, and 

 the flanks, in bay and sorrel horses of a dark tint. 



Examples : maroon bay, rusty around the nostrils and eyes ; burnt 

 sorrel, rusty at the elbows and stifles. 



6. Hairs of Different Directions. 



The hairs of a certain region do not always have the same direc- 

 tion ; at times there are some which take a direction inverse to the 



