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cervical stripes, there were at least five faint “‘shadow”’ stripes. 
In Zebra-Ass hybrids there are usually many indistinct stripes 
on the neck and body, and numerous spots over the hind quarters. 
I consider Zebra-Ass hybrids more primitive in their markings 
than Zebra-Horse hybrids. In having numerous cervical stripes 
Norna approaches Gebra-Ass hybrids, and the only explanation of 
this that occurs to me is that in Norna we have, in the striping 
of the neck, a further reversion than in any of the other hybrid 
offspring of Matopo. 
During the first three months the mane of Norna was quite 
upright, though thicker than in the other hybrids. During the 
last four months the mane has been increasing in length, and it 
is now no longer upright; the posterior half hangs over to the 
right side, the part between and in front of the ears forms a thick 
forelock, while the intermediate portion hangs to the left side. 
Norna with her short head, peculiarly tattooed face, and the 
heavy mane hanging partly to one side and partly to the other, 
looks very quaint, and seems to differ quite as much from her 
sire as she does from her dam the black Shetland pony. The 
coat is now very heavy, the long hairs over the body measuring 
over three inches, while many of the hairs over the brow are 
nearly two inches in length. If Norna develops after the fashion 
of Romulus, she will—a year hence—be a compact small striped 
pony from 11 to 11.2 hands in height. As is the case with 
Romulus, there is nothing about Norna that suggests either an 
ordinary mule or ahinny. She has excellent well-formed feet, 
only a few short hairs at the fetlock, and not a rudiment of warts 
on the hind legs. 
Tue Hyprip ‘ Hrcxra.” 
Heckla’s dam is a 12-hands skewbald Iceland pony. There 
is so much white in this pony (Tundra) and the yellow is so pale 
that I thought her hybrid foal would be nearly as light as a 
pure-bred Zebra. As it happens, Heckla is the darkest of all 
the hybrids, and the stripes are nearly as obscure as in the 
‘‘ Clydesdale”? hybrid Brenda. As she lay by her dam shortly 
after birth, she looked like an overgrown Hare with an unusually 
long head and relatively long ears. From the first her coat has 
consisted of long coarse hairs, and the warts on the front legs 
are prominent, as in her dam. Measuring 823 in. at birth, she 
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