62 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the end of the fifth month (?.e. about the middle of October), 
consists of a thick inner coat of bay and brown fine wavy hairs, 
averaging an inch and a half in length, and of an outer but much 
less abundant coat of stronger hairs, many of which are 22 in. in 
length. Neither the long nor short hairs nor the hairs of the 
mane have yet (January) begun to fall out. 
Tue Hysrip ‘“ Brenna.” 
The dam (“Lady Douglas”) of Brenda is a cross-bred 
Clydesdale mare, built on the lines of the “‘ Douglas” breed, 
once common in the Hamilton district. Like Biddy, she is a bay 
with black points, but, unlike the Irish mare, she has a large 
‘blaze ’’ on the face, a heavy mane and tail, and a liberal amount 
of hair at the fetlock joints. Lady Douglas is 15 hands high, 
the circumference at the knee is 134 in., and below the knee 9 in. 
The face is longer than in Biddy by nearly an inch, and the ears 
by three-quarters of an inch. I expected Brenda (the Clydes- 
dale’s first foal) to closely resemble Remus in colour and markings, 
but in breeding, more especially in cross-breeding, the unex- 
pected often happens. We are too apt to forget that, even when the 
sire belongs to a different and very distinct species, the progeny may 
take after the cross-bred dam. It was evident soon after Brenda 
(Plate II., fig. 2) was foaled that she differed not a little both from 
Romulus and Remus. In the first place her ears looked extremely 
long; they were at birth 63 in., only a quarter of an inch shorter 
than the ears of her dam, and quite as long as the ears of her sire. 
The ears now measure seven and ahalf inches; on the other hand 
the head is relatively short—shorter than the head of a 12-hands 
Iceland pony’s hybrid. The height at the withers was,43 in., 
one inch more than in Remus, and four inches more than in the 
Iceland hybrid. At birth Brenda, apart from her ears, looked 
not unlike an ordinary bay foal, but soon faint stripes began to 
show themselves, and in a day or two the stripes, though 
indistinct, were seen to closely agree in their arrangement with 
those of the other hybrids. Now that the “‘ Clydesdale ” hybrid 
is nearly seven months old, she at a little distance might easily 
be mistaken for an ordinary foal. Compared with Remus the 
head is shorter and finer, while the joints are larger and the 
shanks thicker. At six months the circumference at the knee 
