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result was the production of a female hybrid, now five 

 years old, and bearing, both in lier form and in her colour, 

 very decided indications of her mixed origin. I subse- 

 quently parted with the seven-eighths Arabian mare to 

 Sir Gore Ouseley, who has bred from her by a very fine 

 black Arabian horse. I yesterday morning examined the 

 produce — namely, a two-year-old filly and a year- old colt. 

 They have the character of the Arabian breed as decidedly 

 as can be expected where fifteen-sixteenths of the blood 

 are Arabian, and they are fine specimens of that breed ; 

 but, both in their colour and in the hair of their manes, 

 they have a striking resemblance to the quagga. Their 

 colour is bay, marked more or less like the quagga in a 

 darker tint. Both are distinguished by the dark line along 

 the ridge of the back, the dark stripes across the fore-hand, 

 and the dark bars across the back part of the legs. The 

 stripes of the colt are confined to the withei'S, and to the 

 part of the neck next to tliem. Those on the filly cover 

 nearly the whole of the neck, and the back as far as the 

 flanks. The colour of her coat on the neck adjoining to 

 the mane is pale, and approaching to dun, rendering the 

 stripes there more conspicuous than those on the colt. 

 The same pale tint appears in a less degree on the rump ; 

 and in this circumstance of the dun tint also she resembles 

 the quagga. The colt and filly were taken up from grass 

 for my inspection, and, owing to the pi'esent state of their 

 coats, I could not ascertain whether they bear any indica- 

 tions of the spots on the rump, the dark pasterns, or the 

 narrow stripes on the forehead, with which the quagga is 

 marked. They have no appearance of the dark line along 

 the belly, or of the white tufts on the sides of the mane. 

 Both their manes are black ; that of the filly is short, stiff, 

 and stands upright, and Sir Gore Ouselej''s stud-groom 

 alleged that it never was otherwise. That of the colt is 

 long, but so stiff as to arch upwards and to hang clear of 

 the sides of the neck, in which circumstance it resembles 

 that of the hybrid. This is the more remarkable, as the 

 manes of the Araliian breed hang lank, and closer to the 



