66 HYBRID EQUIDM 



tion of the breeding and practical utilisation of these 

 two hybrids will be fully treated of in the concluding 

 chapters. 



The horse has bred repeatedly with both the Mountain 

 and Burchell's zebra. In the Jardin d'Acclimatation there 

 is at the present time a hybrid between the horse and the 

 BurchelPs zebra, of bright bay colour, with black legs and 

 distinct dorsal stripe. Some years since I described some 

 hybrids between the horse and the female Burchell which 

 were in the park of Sir Henry Meux at Theobalds. The 

 sire of one was an ordinary park pony, that of the other an 

 American trotting pony. This latter hybrid was striped 

 on the legs, neck, and haunches. Both of them, as might 

 be expected, showed much of the equine character and form 

 of the male parent; and from the relative sexes of the 

 parents they necessarily partook more of the characters of 

 the hinny than of the mule. 



Early in this century a pair of hybrids, bred between the 

 horse and BurchelFs zebra, were driven about London in the 

 service of the Zoological Society, but I have not been able 

 to ascertain definitely the relative sex of the two parents, 

 but believe they were hinnys from a zebra mare. The horse 

 has also bred with the Asiatic ass {E. hemionus). In a 

 private letter Lieutenant J. L. Harrington informs me 

 of a male Hemione breeding with an Indian pony, and 

 producing a hybrid that, with the exception of the tail, 

 which was asinine, looked more like a pony than anything* 

 else. 



Two hybrids, between a Hemione and a mare, in the 

 Jardin d'Acclimatation, were described by the late Mr. 

 Jenner Weir. One of these is a very beautiful animal, 

 possessing no shoulder stripes, and with very faint dorsal 

 jstripe. 



