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it was recommended that in the fjord horse “ the head should he 
comparatively small, with well-shaped and well-placed ears, the 
eyes should be large and the nostrils wide, and the neck must 
have a suitable arch, and he broad, hut it should be fine at its 
junction with the head.” “ The colour should he preferably 
light dun (horkede) or light brown (blak), with black mane and 
tail, the legs black below the knees and hocks, and the ear-tips 
black, with cross stripes on the knees and hocks, and with an 
eel-mark down the centre of the hack.”* This colour is prob- 
ably the commonest amongst fjord horses at the present day. 
Other colours — browns and greys — and a darker shade of dun, 
are not infrequent, and I have also seen mouse-coloured ponies. 
Black fjord horses are said to he extremely rare, and it is doubtful 
whether any pure ones exist. Nearly all the light-coloured ponies 
have a black dorsal stripe, and a large proportion of pure and 
partly bred fjord ponies (probably considerably over 50 per cent, 
of those which I saw) have cross stripes on the legs. Shoulder 
stripes are also occasionally present, at any rate in certain of the 
partly bred fjord horses. Professor Ridgeway, however, says that 
Dr Venn, F.R.S., and Mr J. A. Venn, who, on a visit to Norway 
in 1904, examined for him a large number of ponies at various 
coast towns, did not meet with a single instance of striping. 
In typical specimens of the Fjordhest, there is, in winter time, 
a well-marked caudal fringe or tail-lock. This is not shown in the 
pony in the photograph (fig. 1), which was taken in the month of 
August, since the fringe is shed in the summer time, leaving only 
a bunch of very short hairs in the upper part of the tail. I was 
informed, however, that in this particular individual a tail-lock 
consisting of hairs about six inches in length was present in the 
preceding winter. This pony, like several other fjord horses 
which I have seen, had no trace of ergots, but a small callosity 
was present on each hind leg. In numerous other fjord horses 
which I examined, the hock callosities were extremely small, 
being frequently scarcely larger than a pin’s head, but I only 
succeeded in finding a single case in which these vestiges had 
disappeared altogether. This was in a pony at Tonsaasen. 
In other characters, and more particularly in the length of 
* Gudbrandsdal Stud-book (see under Petersen). 
