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Of more importance than the coat-colour is the nature of the 
hair. A Prjevalsky foal has a woolly coat not unlike that of 
an Iceland foal. In the hybrid, the hair is short and fine and 
only slightly wavy over the hind quarters. It thus differs but 
little from a thoroughbred or Arab foal. 
The mane and tail of the hybrid are exactly what one would 
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expect in a mule; the dorsal band, 75 mm. wide over the 
croup in the sire, has in the hybrid a nearly uniform width of 1*2 
mm. from its origin at the withers until it loses itself half-way 
down the tail. The tail, which differs but little from that of a 
pony foal, is of a lighter brown colour than the short upright mane, 
while the dorsal band is of a reddish-brown hue. In the wild 
horse the dorsal band is sometimes very narrow (under 5 mm.) and 
indistinct. In the Kiang sire there are pale but quite distinct stripes 
