DAPPLED AND STRIPED HORSES 8i 



frequentlj' seen marks like those sho\\-n roughly in Fig. 48, which 

 are the marks we see along the spine of man}' Tigers, such as that 

 given in Fig. 22. 



The remarkable black dappling on the dorsal region of the 

 white Horse given in Fig. 49 lea\-es little 

 doubt that those blotches and spottings 

 are broken-up Zebra bands. ^ 



All the cases I have quoted go to ' " .^ ^°« 



show that the dappling of Horses some- 

 times tends to dispose itself in a kind 

 of striping or banding in some parts ><*^ 

 which is not unlike that of the Zebra. 

 But independently of any theories of 



Fig. .^8. — .\rro\v-hcad marks 

 the genesis of striping in the Horse, along tlie spine ofsome grey dappled 



Mr. Darwin, as a matter of fact, col- Horses. 



lected a large number of cases of 



Horses, which actually had stripes on their legs, their shoulders, and 



even on their faces. Mr. J. A. Thomson^ gives the figure of a 



Devonshire Pony, from Darwin, A\ith bands in certain parts which 



are e\-idently vestiges of a much more extensive ancestral banding. 



Mr. Darwin - saj's, ' I have collected cases of leg and shoulder 

 stripes in Horses of -^ery different breeds in various countries from 

 Britain to Eastern China, and from Norway in the North to the 

 Malay Archipelago in the South. In all parts of the world, these 

 stripes occur far oftenest in duns and Mouse-duns.' 



These are the colours of wild Asses, and it would appear when 

 these colours are reverted to, certain stripes, which belong to these 

 wild animals, often reappear. 



In tlie Zoological Gardens there is a specimen of the Asiatic 



1 Study of Animal Life, p. 322. Second edition. 

 - Origin of Sfaies (188S), p. 200. 



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