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A singular fact in natural history. 
are distinguished by the dark line along the ridge of the 
back, the dark stripes across the fore-hand, and the dark 
bars across the back part of the legs. The stripes across 
the fore-hand of the colt are confined to the withers, and to 
the part of the neck next to them ; those on the filly cover 
nearly the whole of the neck and the back, as far as the 
flanks. The colour of her coat on the neck adjoining to the 
mane is pale, and approaching to dun, rendering the stripes 
there more conspicuous than those on the colt. The same 
pale tint appears in a less degree on the rump ; and in this 
circumstance of the dun tint also she resembles the quagga. 
The colt and filly were taken up from grass for my in- 
spection, and, owing to the present state of their coats, I 
could not ascertain whether they bear any indications of the 
spots on the rump, the dark pasterns, or the narrow stripes 
on the forehead, with which the quagga is marked. They 
have no appearance of the dark line along the belly, or of 
the white tufts on the sides of the mane. Both their manes 
are black ; that of the filly is short, stiff, and stands upright, 
and Sir Gore Ouseley’s stud groom alleged that it never 
was otherwise. That of the colt is long, but so stiff' as to 
arch upwards, and to hang clear of the sides of the neck ; in 
which circumstance it resembles that of the hybrid. This 
is the more remarkable, as the manes of the Arabian breed 
hang lank, and closer to the neck than those of most others. 
The bars across the legs, both of the hybrid and of the colt 
and filly, are more strongly defined, and darker than those 
on the legs of the quagga, which are very slightly marked ; 
and though the hybrid has several quagga marks, which the 
colt and filly have not, yet the most striking, namely, the 
