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but in one case they were triangular, and seemed to fit into each 

 other as in (d). This disposition of the flank spots and inter- 

 spaces can, I think, be sufficiently made out in the dark Horse 

 of Fig. 38. 



Moreover, in one particular Horse which I saw in the London 

 streets, the spots in the front part of the haunch 

 were also disposed in rows, which met the flank 

 rows at the abdomen, as shown in (c^ Well, if 

 in imagination you amalgamate all the white 

 spots, you will have alternate light and dark 

 transverse bands, and those of (c) would almost 

 reproduce the haunch and flank stripes of the 

 Zebra (Fig. 52). 



This is not all, for I have not infrequently seen 

 that, in the modified dapplings of grey Horses, 

 on the upper part of the leg the white stars 

 amalgamated into transverse irregular bands, 

 while the dark reticulations also amalgamated 

 and formed alternate bands. I have shown this 

 feature roughly in Fig. 45. It is also very partially noticeable 

 in Fig. 38 (upper Horse). 



Further, on the neck of a light-bay pony at Bexhill-on-the-Sea, 

 and also on a butcher's white pony in London, I have seen faint 

 transverse stripes resembling those of the brindled Gnu. Then, 

 on the upper ridge of the necks of grey dappled, and more 

 especially brown dappled. Horses, the dark reticulations take the 

 form of short bands. In a grey dappled Pony at the Horse Show 

 of May 1 893, the upper ridge of the neck was marked as I have 



Fig. 45. — Rough 

 sketch of fore-leg of a 

 dappled grey Cart- 

 horse. 



1 The striped American Marmot (Arcto?iiys Hodii) has each of its longitudinal 

 stripes made up of a string of while squares on a dark ground (Animal Kingdom of 

 Citvier, by Griffith, vol. iii. p. 186). 



