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Bay is a reddish, nut-brown colour, with various shades. 
Bark bay Horses are of a very dark brown, almost black, except 
on the flanks and tip of the nose, where they are of a reddish 
colour. The golden , or light bay, is a yellow sun-light hue. 
Dappled bay Horses have on their rumps spots of a darker hay 
than on the rest of their bodies. In bay Horses the extre- 
mities, the mane, and the tail are always black. 
There are three kinds of black Horses : the rusty black, which 
is of a brownish tinge, more or less conspicuous in various lights ; 
the black, and the coal-black, which is the darkest of all. 
Ihm-coloured horses, of which there are several shades, are of a 
yellowish- sandy hue ; the mane and tail of these is either white 
or black. Some of the latter have a black line along the vertebra, 
which is called a mule’s, or eel-stripe. 
Chestnut is a kind of reddish or cinnamon-coloured bay. 
There are several shades of it, among which are the bright chestnut, 
which is the colour of a red Cow’s coat ; the common chestnut, 
which is neither dark nor bright ; the bay chestnut, which verges 
upon the red ; the burnt chestnut, which is dark, and nearly 
approaches black. Some chestnut Horses have white manes and 
tails, others black. The roan is a mixture of red and white. 
Grey Horses have white hair mixed with black or hay. There 
are several modifications of this colour ; the dappled-grey , the 
silver-grey , the iron-grey, &c. Dapple-grey horses have on the 
the back and other parts of the body a number of round spots, in 
some cases black, in others, of a lighter hue ; these spots are 
somewhat irregularly distributed. Grey horses as they increase 
in age become lighter in colour, ultimately becoming white. 
Piebald and skewbald horses are white, with large irregular 
spots and stripes of some other colour irregularly arranged. The 
different kinds are distinguished by the colour that is combined 
with the white, as the piebald proper, which are white and black ; 
the skewbald, which are white and hay ; the chestnut piebald, which 
are white and chestnut. 
The Horses which have small black spots on a white or grey 
coat are called flea-bitten, particularly prevalent in India among 
Arabs. 
We have hitherto considered the wild and domestic Horse in 
common, both as regards their structure and their colour ; in 
