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lace fashion — of spots, like those of Fig. 38 (upper Horse), which by 

 further fusion were modified into clean-margined stripes. The 

 similarity between the stripes of the Tiger and the Zebra can be 

 seen at a glance ; but the similarity between the spotting of the 



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Fig. 56. — [a) Rosettes from the flank of an omnibus Horse of a strawberry roan colour 

 (reduced); {i) rosette from the groin of a highly dappled grey Horse ; (c) one of many 

 rosettes on the fiank of a dappled grey cart Horse ; {d) marks on the flank of a brown 

 Horse. 



Jaguar and that of the Horse is not so easily traced, and has to be 

 evolved with the aid of the imagination out of the variations pre- 

 sented by hundreds of specimens. 



Nevertheless in Fig. 56 («) I am able to give dona fide rosettes 

 from the flank of a newly-clipped strawberry roan Horse. They 



