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1st Division. — One colour: 1, black ; 2, white ; 3, chestnut. 
2d Division. — One colour, black legs: 4, bay; 5, brown; 
6, mouse-coloured. 
3d Division. — Two colours: 7, grey; 8, flea-bitten; 9, dun. 
4th Division. — Three colours, legs the same : 10, roan. 
5th Division. — Mixed coloured : 11, piebald. 
M. Henri Bouley published, in 1837, an “ Exterieur des 
Animaux Domestiques,” in which the coats are arranged under 
twelve colours, to which are appended about fifty varieties. 
His whole colours are : 1, white ; 2, black ; 3, bay (without 
black legs); 4, cream-colour; 5, brown; 6, chestnut; 7, grey; 
8, mouse-colour; 9, flea-bitten grey; 10, dun ; 11, roan; 12, 
piebald. 
M. LECOQ, Professor of the Veterinary School at Lyon, in his 
excellent treatise of the “Exterieur,” admits, without restricting 
himself to any classification, ELEVEN principal groups, com- 
prising in themselves all the varieties of coats: they are, 1, 
black; 2, white; 3, mouse-colour; 4, brown, with white legs; 
5, bay; 6, flea-bitten grev ; 7, brown, with black legs ; chestnut ; 
roan ; piebald. 
M. BRIVET has assumed a principle of classification which 
merits consideration, as comprising a happy view of the ques- 
tion. 
lstly. He says, the divers colours the coats of animals assume 
have this relationship and affinity between them, that they run 
one into another by an infinity of shades, the same as the white 
is. related to the black through a variety of intermediate greys. 
2dly. The characters furnished by the fore-top, the mane, the 
tail, and the fetlocks, ought to hold the highest place in any scale 
constructed on the principle of colour, those being the only 
regions wherein the hair is permanent : in all other parts it is 
shed. 
Such is the report of the Committee — to whom it was referred 
by the Society — of M. Orger’s work “On the Coats of Domestic 
Animals;” to which some few pages are added, finding fault 
with the author for certain opinions and statements irreconcile- 
able with the popular notions of the day. The subject of coat , 
or rather colour of the coat , is a very interesting one, and at 
first sight appears a facile one to sift. But engagement with 
it will soon shew' that it is by no means so. Even the 
cardinal or simple colours are not agreed on by authors; and as 
for the shades and varieties and mixtures of them, the opinions 
are, on some points, as various as the hues themselves. Then, 
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