524 THE CORRECT PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING ANIMALS. 
many facts are adduced by the three writers we have quoted; 
and the facts are not only “ stubborn,” but numerous and 
striking. Take these as instances : In the Transactions of the 
Royal Society for 1821, a fact is related of a thorough-bred 
mare, belonging to Sir Gore Ouseley, who was covered by a 
zebra, and, as might be expected, she produced a striped off- 
spring. Next year she was served by a thorough-bred horse, 
at a great distance, and she again produced a zebra-like striped 
animal. A second year the same circumstance took place with 
another horse, and again with the same result. A circumstance 
very much in keeping with this, and illustrative of it, if not so 
striking, is given by the Y.S. to her Majesty, Mr. Wm. Good- 
win. Several of the mares in that establishment had foals in 
one year, which were by Actseon, but which presented exactly 
the marks of the horse Colonel — a white hind fetlock for in- 
stance, and a white mark or stripe on the face — and Actseon 
was perfectly free from white. The mares had all bred from 
Colonel the previous year. Mr. Blaine’s story is well known, 
and may suffice to shew the influence, at least, on horses. He 
states that Lord Morton had a mare covered by a quagga — a 
kind of large ass — which produced a cross between the two, and 
resembled both. The next year she was served by a black 
Arabian horse of very pure blood, but the produce had the 
stripe and hair and marks of the quagga. She was again 
served by the same horse, and the same result precisely fol- 
lowed — the one foal being a colt and the other a filly. 
Mr. M'Gillavray mentions also how a colt of Lord Suffield’s, 
at Newmarket, so resembled the horse Camel, that it was be- 
lieved that some mistake, intentional or otherwise, had taken 
place in his described pedigree. The facts above were alone 
sufficient to account for the likeness; for the mare had been 
served the year before by Camel. 
Passing down to sheep, Dr. Harvey relates a circumstance 
in point, which happened to Mr. Shaw, of Leochel. He put 
six pure horned and black-faced sheep to a white-faced hornless 
Leicester ram, and others of his flock to a dun-faced Down ram. 
The produce were crosses between the two. In the following 
year they were put to a ram of their own breed, also pure — all 
the lambs were hornless, and had brown faces. Another year 
he again put them to a pure-bred horned and black-faced ram. 
There was a smaller proportion this year impure; but two of the 
produce were polled, one dun-faced with very small horns, and 
three were white-faced — shewing the partial influence of the 
cross even to the third year. 
A similar case in the pig is related by Professor Simonds : 
D. Giles, Esq., had a sow of the black-and-white breed, which 
