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APPENDIX C 



In addition to the Horses given in Part II,, the following short descriptions, 

 taken from specimens in the streets, will give some idea of the innumerable 

 variations of marking which are to be found among these animals. These are 

 some of the most striking deviations from the ordinary colorations one sees 

 everywhere. 



No. I.— A light bay Horse, brindled on the neck with black, Hke the 

 striping of a Cat. 



No. 2. — A bay Horse on his back and neck had distinct faint stripes like 

 those of the Zebra. 



No. 3. — An omnibus Horse, of a strawberry-roan colour, was faintly striped 

 on his flank, and spotted faintly on his hindquarters. 



No. 4. — A dappled grey Horse with three transverse stripes on upper part 

 of fore-leg. 



No. 5. — It is no uncommon thing to see the mane of dark-grey Horses 

 barred white and black hke that of the Zebra. 



No. 6. — Bay omnibus Horse with white spots on his flank like those of the 

 spotted Deer. 



No. 7. — A dun-coloured Horse, of the colour of a bath-sponge, with cream- 

 coloured dapples. 



No. 8.- — A flea-bitten Horse is sometimes dappled on his haunches. 



No. 9. — A sponge-coloured Horse with a patch of black reticulations in front 

 of his tail-root and a suffused sootiness along the ridge of his neck. 



No. 10. — A roan Horse with rows of about five spots on his flank inclined 

 in the direction of his ribs. 



No. II. — A Pony partly clipped — the uncHpped part was almost while, 

 while the clipped part was dark-grey, dappled white. 



No. 12. — A dark-grey Horse dappled all over with pale tan or dun colour. 



No. 13. — A smoky-brown carriage Horse dappled with black on the hind- 

 quarters. 



No. 14. — I have seen a roan Horse dappled all over with black spots, 

 much like the grey, dun, or brown dappled Horse, but usually both the roan 



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