ORDER OF TACHYDERMATA. 1S9 



Bay is a reddish nut-brown colour, with -various shades. 

 Bark hay Horses are of a very dark brown, almost black, except 

 on the flanks and tip of the nose, where they are of a reddish 

 colour. The golden, or light hay, is a yellow sun-light hue. 

 Bappled hay Horses have on their rumps spots of a darker bay 

 than on the rest of their bodies. In bay Horses the extre- 

 mities, the mane, and the tail are always black. 



There are three kinds of black Horses : the rusty Uach, which 

 is of a brownish tinge, more or less conspicuous in various lights ; 

 the hlacli, and the coal-hlack, which is the darkest of all. 



Bun-coXowied. horses, of which there are several shades, are of a 

 yellowish-sandy hue ; the mane and tail of these is either white 

 or black. Some of the latter have a black line along the vertebra, 

 which is called a mule's, or eel-stripe. 



Chestnut is a kind of reddish or cinnamon-coloured bay. 

 There are several shades of it, among which are the hright chestnut, 

 which is the colour of a red Cow's coat ; the common chestnut, 

 which is neither dark nor bright ; the hay chestnut, which verges 

 upon the red ; the burnt chestnut, which is dark, and nearly 

 approaches black. Some chestnut Horses have white manes and 

 tails, others black. The I'oan is a mixture of red and white. 



Grey Horses have white hair mixed with black or bay. There 

 are several modifications of this colour ; the dappled-grey, the 

 silver-grey, the iron-grey, &c. Dapple-grey horses have on the 

 the back and other parts of the body a number of round spots, in 

 some cases black, in others, of a lighter hue; these spots are 

 somewhat irregularly distributed. Grey horses as they increase 

 in age become lighter in colour, ultimately becoming white. 



Piehald and shewhald horses are white, with large irregular 

 spots and stripes of some other colour irregularly arranged. The 

 difierent kinds are distinguished by the colour that is combined 

 with the white, as the piehald proper, which are white and black ; 

 the skewbald, which are white and bay ; the chestnut jnebald, which 

 are white and chestnut. 



The Horses which have small black spots on a white or grey 

 coat are called flea-bitten, particularly prevalent in India among 



Arabs. 



We have hitherto considered the wild and domestic Horse in 

 common, both as regards their structure and their colour; in 



