Wilson — 7%e Inheritance oj the Dim Coat- Colour in Morses. 193 

 Fourth Gkneration. 



The Gower Dun Barb's Stock. 



The colours attached to each animal in the above table are those given in 

 the stud-book ; but where no colour is given and the colour can be inferred, 

 or where that in the stud-book can be shown to be wrong, the inferred or 

 corrected colour is attached in brackets. Omissions and errors occur in all 

 stud-books ; but some corrections can be made by reason of the work already 

 done upon the inheritance of coat-colour in horses.* Few corrections are 

 necessary in the Thorough-bred Stud-book, even in the earliest volumes. 

 Judging by the greys, the errors in the first volume are not more than four 



1 This mare is stated to have had also, in 1759, a dun colt, Doubtful, either by Blank, a bay, or 

 the Gower Dun Barb. 



2 In this connexion, and in addition to Mr. C. C. Hurst's work and to a paper in the second 

 number of The Mendel Journal by Mr. Eobert Bunsow, the -writer of this paper wishes to draw 

 attention to two most valuable papers published in Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbiicher, vol. xvii, 1888. 

 They are on the colours of the horses of the royal Trakehnen studs in Germany, by Dr. M. Wilckens 

 and Dr. Crampe. The writer saw these articles casually ten or twelve years ago, and, although he 

 has searched for them again and again during the last three years, could not find them, through not 

 remembering where they were published. A few weeks ago his attention was drawn by Mr. Condon, 

 the Librarian of the Eoyal College of Science, to some " papers on the colour of horses " in an odd 

 hack volume of the Jahrhiicher in the college library. These were the two papers so anxiously 

 sought after. Had these papers been available during the last few years, an enormous amount of 

 very hard labour would have been saved, for from them the relative positions of chestnut, black, 



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