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I examined some mares of the farm -horse type with their foals 

 in a field at Radley in 1915 with the following results. All the 

 mothers showed the common reversed area or pattern on the under 



Fig. 57. — Brown hackney, examined 

 29th October, 1914. On under surface 

 of neck beneath the lowest portion of 

 an ill-fitting collar, a wide area of 

 reversed hair on each side coalescing 

 in a central upward stream. 



Fig. 58. — Brown hackney engaged 

 in drawing a low Swiss cart, with 

 loose collar low on neck. Examined 

 at the Croix in Jura mountains, 

 24th September, 1912. On lower 

 surface of neck under the collar 

 three reversed areas observed: one 

 central (F) two (W, C) central and 

 similar ; all three showing a whorl, 

 feathering and crest: central area 

 placed vertically, lateral ones slightly 

 oblique. A very rare condition. 



surfaces of their necks. Of the five foals all but one showed clear 

 evidence, even in their thick young coats, of a similar pattern, 

 the fifth had none. I also noted two similar examples in a field 

 at Harrogate in the same year and both the mothers and the foals 

 showed the usual pattern ; and again at Radley in 1918 four more 



