526 ON THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM IN ANIMALS. 
was covered by a zebra, and the produce, as a matter of course, 
was a striped animal. The mare was covered the next year by 
a thorough-bred horse, in a distant part of the country, and the 
produce was also a striped animal: the next year, the same mare 
was covered by another horse, and the produce was still a striped 
animal. The history of these facts, the paintings of the animals, 
and the veritable skins themselves, can still be seen at the Royal 
College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.—William Goodwin, 
V.S. to the Queen, relates the following:—1 must mention a fact 
that came to my notice in the Royal Stud at Hampton Court. In 
several foals got by the horse Actseon, w*e observed the marks 
to be those of the horse Colonel, which horse had a white hind 
fetlock, and a white slip in the face : Actseon had no white about 
him. The dams of these foals had bred foals to the Colonel the 
previous year. These marks were so distinct that there could be 
no mistake about them, and all the facts and circumstances were 
notorious.—This curious result was once nearly leading to some 
inexcusable remarks being made at Newmarket, about a colt the 
property of the Earl of Suffield, which was got by Laurel, out 
of Datura’s dam, and which so resembled Camel, that it was 
whispered, nay even asserted, that he must have been got by 
Camel. On a reference to the Stud-book, we find that the mare 
was covered the previous year bv Camel. The colt was in 
Richard Boyce’s stable, and the facts must be in the recollection 
of many.—Mr. Blaine, a gentleman well known in the professional 
world, states the following facts :—Lord Morton produced a breed 
between a male quagga and a chestnut mare, which mare was 
afterwards bred from by a black Arabian horse : the progeny, 
however, exhibited in colour and mane a striking resemblance to 
the male quagga. 
A farmer in - had a pure Aberdeenshire heifer, which 
was served with a pure Teeswater bull, to whom she had a first 
cross calf. The following season the same cow was served with a 
pure Aberdeenshire bull. This bull was on the farm; the cow 
could not have met any other bull. The produce was a cross calf, 
which at two years old had very long horns: the parents were 
both hummel. 
A gentleman in this district had a pure Aberdeenshire cow, 
which, in 1845, was served with a cross bull (that is, an animal 
produced between a first-cross cow and a pure Teeswater bull). 
To this bull she had a cross calf. This cow being considered a 
very fine specimen of the pure Aberdeenshire breed, the owner 
was anxious to have a calf of her own breed. For this purpose 
she was next season served by a pure Aberdeenshire bull: she 
