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a liorse than in an ass. The warts (chestnuts), only present 

 on the fore-legs, are large, smooth, and black. Oval in 

 form, they measure 3 in. by 2 in., and lie as in the ass as 

 nearly as possible at the middle of the forearm. In summer 

 the stripes are neax-ly black, while the intervening spaces 

 on the sides of the neck, body, and hind quarters are of a 

 cream-colour; elsewhere they are nearly white. In winter 

 brown hairs (over an inch in length on the body, but shorter 

 on the face) grow out from the dark bands, while equally 

 long white hairs grow out from the intermediate spaces. 

 As summer sets in the long brown and white hairs are 

 gradually shed, the summer coat consisting of hairs from 

 an eighth to three eighths of an inch in length. During 

 the summer of 1897, as in 1896, a few of the long hairs 

 persisted on the sides of the body.* The skin is dark 

 throughout, under the white hair the skin is of an iron 

 grey coloui-, elsewhere it is nearly black owing to the pig- 

 ment in the hair roots. The mane consists at each side of 

 black and white tufts of hair, which alternate with each 

 other ; sometimes a narrow light patch an inch or two in 

 length is introduced into the neck to admit of this alterna- 

 tion being fairly regular. The central part of the mane 

 consists of black hairs measuring from five to six inches in 

 length, except over the withers, where they are short, and 

 between and in front of the ears, where they are from three 

 to four inches in length ; the black central hairs are always 

 longer than the white lateral tufts, the difference in length 

 being greatest in the front half of the mane. Both the dai"k 

 and light hairs of the mane are shed annually, and the light 

 tufts are the same colour summer and winter — not white in 

 winter and cream-coloured in summer, like the spaces in 

 the neck with which they are continuous. The mane 



* It is worthy of note that during the present winter (1897-98) the 

 long brown hairs have not yet (February) appeared. This is doubtless 

 due to the extreme mildness of the season. In its native country the 

 winter coat is worn during our summer. This may account for some of 

 the long brown hairs persisting during the two previous seasons well into 

 the autumn. 



