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definitely tliat all horse-foals do not pass through a striped 

 stage. On the other hand, though a dorsal band and leg- 

 stripes are present in one of the parents, the offspring may 

 be quite devoid of stripes. The most remarkable instance 

 I have come across of stripes being few and obscure in the 

 oiispring, though plentiful in one of the parents, is a zebra 

 hybrid (Fig. 37) bred by Lady Meux.* The dam in this 

 case was a Burchell's zebra mare (the skin, Fig. 38, of 



Fig. :i7. 



Zebra ? horse ^ Hybrid. (Bred by Lady Meux.) 



which has been preserved), the sire a small wall-eyed light 

 bay pony (Fig. 39). The zebra mare had previously borne 

 two foals striped after the manner of my zebra-mare hybrids. 

 The sire of one of these foals, I understand, was a bay pony, 

 of the other a brown pony. Why the third foal was obscurely 



* To Lady Meux, of Theobald's Park, Hertfordshire, I am indebted for 

 tlie permission to have photographs taken of her three extremely interesting 

 horse (J, zebra ? hybrids. 



