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merits," to which book I am indebted for most of the facts 

 given here on the subject. 



Professor Ewart has been successful in breeding a number 

 of hybrids, the sire being a Burchell's zebra, and the dams 

 mares of various breeds. 



A West Highland pony mare, after giving birth to a 

 hybrid, was mated to an Arab horse and bore a foal, which 

 in all respects but one was just such a foal as might have 

 been expected from his parentage. The exception was the 

 presence of stripes, very indistinct, and not to be seen 

 except in certain lights, and difficult to photograph. Later 

 this same mare bore another foal, the sire being a West 

 Highland pony from the Island of Rum, and called " Loch 

 Corrie ; " this third foal was striped in a very similar 

 manner to the second, and had the experiment been carried 

 no further there is no doubt that these two striped foals 

 would have been considered as lending strong support to 

 the theory of telegony. But since the birth of these two 

 foals, two other Highland ponies have borne foals to the 

 same sire, " Loch Corrie." Neither of these ponies had 

 been previously mated with a zebra, yet their foals are both 

 striped in a similar way. The Arab sire of the second foal 

 had also other offspring, one of which, from a New Forest 

 pony, had a number of stripes. This New Forest pony, 

 however, though never mated with a zebra, had borne a 

 mule foal. 



A Shetland mare bore first a foal to a sire of her own 

 race, and this foal was very plainly striped. It is described 

 as being nearly as much striped as the filly in Lord 

 Morton's experiment. Then the mare bore a zebra hybrid ; 

 and afterwards a third foal, the sire being a Welsh pony. 

 This third foal had only the faintest appearance of stripes 

 at birth, and these disappeared before twelve months. 



Thus the foal produced before the hybrid was well striped, 

 and that after it hardly striped at all. 



An Iceland pony, after having given birth to a zebra 

 hybrid, was mated to a Shetland pony, and the foal pro- 

 duced has no stripes or other indication of having been 

 "infected" by the previous union with a zebra. 



Two Irish mares, after producing hybrids, bore foals, one 

 to a thoroughbred horse, and the other to a hackney pony, 

 and neither of these bore any traces of stripes or other 

 zebra-like characteristics. 



An Arab mare bore twin zebra hybrids, and the fol- 

 lowing year had a foal, the sire of which was a thorough- 



