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was 104 in., and below the knee 6} in.—almost exactly the same 
as in Romulus when seventeen months old. The mane, at first 
nearly upright, short and Zebra-like, is now made up of hairs 
from eight to ten inches in length (nearly as long as in an ordinary 
foal of the same age). Except near the withers and between the 
ears the mane arches freely to the right side, some of the hairs 
almost touching the neck. The hair between the ears already 
projects forwards to form a forelock. In Remus, as already 
mentioned, the mane is still upright, and shorter than in his sire. 
The tail in Brenda has also from the first been heavier than in 
any other of the hybrids, and fewer hairs have been shed from 
its base; further, almost from the first there have been a few hairs 
at the fetlock joints. The hairs around the small ergots are now 
over two inches in length. 
The chestnuts on the fore legs in the Zebra are large and 
smooth, and on a level with the skin; in Romulus and Remus 
they are also large, and hardly if at all above the level of the 
skin, but they occasionally give off thin scales. In Brenda the 
front chestnuts, though relatively nearly as large as in a Zebra, 
project as far above the level of the skin as in a pure Clydesdale 
foal. The left hind leg carries a small prominent chestnut about 
a quarter of an inch in diameter, but there is no rudiment of a 
chestnut on the right hind leg. The hoofs are the hoofs of a 
Yebra, and considerably smaller than would be the hoofs of a 
Clydesdale foal of the same age. ‘They are wide behind and 
rounded in front, but the bars are relatively short, 2. e. they do 
not extend as far back as the frog. I may add, the nostrils are 
in their shape a little less Zebra-like than in the other hybrids; 
that the muzzle suggests the dam more than the sire, the lower 
lip being, as in the dam, somewhat long; and that the rounded 
ears are tipped with white, as is occasionally the case in dun 
ponies as well as in Zebras. As might have been expected, the 
trunk and hind quarters are more massive than in Remus, while 
the shoulders are less upright, and perhaps as a consequence of 
this the action at all times is less Zebra-like than in any of the 
other hybrids. As fig. 2 (Pl. II.) indicates, there is a ‘‘ swirl” 
nearly three inches in length extending down the centre of the 
face between the eyes. The same figure also indicates fairly well 
the extent of the marking at the end of the second month. The 
