144 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
in the extreme cold, and the writer has known one to winter 
perfectly in the mountains of Pennsylvania. His coat, 
while fine and silky in spring and summer, in winter is as 
thick as a beaver’s and has an undercoating of fur-like hair. 
170. Organizations and records. — The Arab Horse 
Club is promoting the interests of the Arab horse and 
registering both pure-breds and colts from Arab sires but 
out of mares of other breeding. Arabian horses are now 
eligible for registration in the American Stud-book and in 
the General Stud-book of Great Britain. 
Literature. — Roger D. Upton, Gleanings from the Desert of 
Arabia, London (1881); Lady Anne Blunt, The Bedouin Tribes 
of the Euphrates, 2 vols., London (1879); Same, A Pilgrimage to 
Nejd, 2 vols., London (1881); Boucant, The Arab, the Horse of 
the Future, Gay & Bird, Strand, London (1905). 
Bars AND Turk Horses 
By Carl W. Gay 
171. The Barb horse takes his name from his native 
habitat, the so-called Barbary states of nothern Africa, 
originally peopled by the Berber tribes. These states are 
Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and Tripoli. The Barb is the 
“ Horse of the Sahara,” of Daumas, the ‘‘ North African ”’ 
or “‘ Libyan” horse of Ridgeway. The oriental group is 
composed of the Barb, the Turk and the Arabian, although 
most recent investigations indicate the Barb to have been 
the real source of all oriental blood. A common error re- 
sulting in much confusion is the use of the term Arabian 
in a sense synonymous with oriental. 
172. History in Egypt. — History first records the horse 
under domestication in Egypt, and it is thought that his 
