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colour when the Mane and Tail are white : The 

 Black Gray is almoft the fame with a great deal of 

 Black, and but little white. The Brownifh or Sandy- 

 coloured Gray, is when there is Bay-coloured Hairs 

 mixed with Black, and is a very good colour. The 

 Dapple-Gray is commonly known. 



Of Pye-bald Horfes are feveral kinds, as Black, 

 Bay, and Sorrel. The lefs White they have, it is fo 

 much the better token of their goodnefs. 



The Roan is as good a colour as any of the pre- 

 ceding ; and there are feveral kinds, as the Roan 

 of a Wine-like colour, which approaches near to 

 the colour of a pale Claret •, and the Roan with a 

 black Head, which hath alfo his .Mane and Tail 

 black. 



The Starling- colour fomewhat refembles the 

 brownifh or black Gray, only more Freckled, and 

 having a confiderable deal more white, refembling 

 the colour of that Bird's Breaft and Back- feathers. 



Horfes of the colour of a Peach- flower or Blof- 

 fbm are very rarely fenfible and obedient to the 

 Spurs, but their colour is delicate and pleafing td 

 the Eye. 



The Sorrel is a kind of Bay of a brown or rather 

 reddifh colour. There are but few but what arc 

 good, efpecially if their Manes, Tails, and Legs be 

 black. 



There are feveral kinds of Sorrels, and their dif- 

 ference chiefly confifts in the colour of their Manes 

 and Tails : As, 



The Red or Cow-colour'd Sorrel, with the Mane 

 and Tail White, or of the fame colour with their 

 Bodies. 



The Bright or Light-coloured Sorrel, hath com- 

 monly the Mane and Tail White, and is not much 

 ^vorth. 



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