1(32 DISTINCT SPECIES PRESENT Chap. V. 



Colonel Poole tliat the foals of this species arc generally striped 

 on the legs, and faiiitly on the shoulder. The quagga, though 

 so plainly barred like a zebra over the body, is without bars 

 on the legs ; but ]3r. Gray has figured one specimen with very 

 distinct zebra-like bars on the hocks. 



"With respect to the horse, I have collected cases in Eng- 

 land of the spinal stripe in horses of the most distinct breeds, 

 and of all colors : transverse bars on the legs are not rare in 

 duns, mouse-duns, and in one instance in a chestnut: a faint 

 shoulder-stripe may sometimes be seen in duns, and I have seen 

 a trace in a bay horse. JNIy son made a careful examination and 

 sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse Avith a double stripe 

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

 dun Devonshire ponj^, 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 horses 

 is so generally striped, that, as I hear from Colonel Poole, who 

 examined the breed for the Indian Government, a horse with- 

 out stripes is not considered as purely-bred. The spine is 

 always striped; the legs are generally barred; and the shoul- 

 der-stripe, which is sometimes double and sometimes treble, is 

 common ; the side of the face, moreover, is sometimes striped. 

 The stripes are often plainest in the foal ; and sometimes quite 

 disappear in old horses. Colonel Poole has seen both gray 

 and bay Kattywar horses striped Avhen first foaled. I have 

 also reason to suspect, from information given me by Mr. AV. 

 W. Edwards, that Avith the English race-horse the spinal strijie 

 is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. 

 I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring 

 of a Turcoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English 

 race-horse ; this foal when a week old Avas marked on its hinder 

 quarters and on its forehead Avith numerous, A'ery narroAV, dark, 

 zebra-like bars, and its legs were feebly striped : all the stripes 

 soon disappeared completely. Without here entering on fur- 

 ther details, I may state that I have collected cases of leg and 

 shoulder stripes in horses of A'ery different breeds, in A'arious 

 countries from Britain to Eastern China ; and from NorAvay in 

 the north to the ISIalay Archipelago in the south. In all jiarts 

 of the Avorld these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse- 

 duns ; by the term dun a large range of color is included, from 

 one between broAvn and black to a close approach to cream- 

 color. 



