64 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
brow arches (hardly visible in the figure) are nearly as pointed as 
the frontal arches in a Norwegian pony in my possession, and as 
in the Amsterdam Quagga. ‘This is very remarkable, as in all 
the other hybrids the brow stripes form rounded arches. ‘The 
cervical, and in fact all the other stripes as far as they go, agree 
with the corresponding stripes of Romulus. In the region of the 
shoulder the markings are very faint, and over the hind quarters 
only a few indistinct spots and portions of bands can be detected. 
The lower parts of the legs are only faintly striped, and even the 
bars across the forearm and the hock are more obscure than 
usual. But although none of the stripes are very pronounced, 
there are, strange to say, faint lines between several of the 
cervical ‘and vertical body-stripes. These lines suggest ‘“‘shadow”’ 
stripes, and seem to correspond to.some of the numerous 
indistinct vertical stripes seen in Zebra-Ass hybrids. In having 
faint intermediate vertical stripes, this, on the whole, Horse-like 
hybrid may be said to be, in at least one respect, more primitive 
(to have reverted further) than either of the other hybrids 
already described. If this hybrid continues to thrive, she ought 
to grow into a powerful, active, shapely cob, about fourteen hands 
in height, hardier and with more staying power than an ordinary 
mule. 
THe Hysprip “ Norna.” 
The most attractive of last summer’s crop of hybrids has for 
its dam a good-looking 11-hands Shetland pony (“Nora’’). This 
pony, which will be six years old in the spring, had a foal in 1895 
to a small black prize Shetland pony (“ Wallace’). Nora is in. 
many ways a small edition of Mulatto, and her foal Norna may 
be said to be a small edition of Romulus. When a few days old 
Norna, in her colouring, movements, and make, was more fasci- 
nating than Romulus at a similar age; and now that she has in- 
creased from thirty inches (her height when foaled on June 8th) to 
nearly forty-one inches she looks (notwithstanding her single hoofs) 
as if she belonged to some bygone age. Norna has been from the 
first more intelligent than any of her contemporaries, and always 
very much on the alert without being at all nervous or frightened. 
She followed her dam through a crowd of some thousands 
of people on Jubilee Day without any hesitation, or evincing any 
signs of fear, and she now leads quietly and allows herself to be 
