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bay horse. My son made a careful examination and 
sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse with a double 
stripe on each shoulder and with leg-stripes; and a man, 
whom I can implicitly trust, has examined for me a 
small dun Welch pony with three short parallel stripes 
on each shoulder. 
In the north-west part of India the Kattywar breed 
of horses is so generally striped, that, as I hear from 
Colonel Poole, who examined the breed for the Indian 
Grovernment, a horse without stripes is not considered as 
purely-bred. The spine is always striped; the legs are 
generally barred ; and the shoulder-stripe, which is some¬ 
times double and sometimes treble, is common; the side 
of the face, moreover, is sometimes striped. The stripes 
are plainest in the foal; and sometimes quite disappear 
in old horses. Colonel Poole has seen both gray and 
bay Kattywar horses striped when first foaled. I 
have, also, reason to suspect, from information given 
me by Mr. W. W. Edwards, that with the English race¬ 
horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal 
than in the full-grown animal. Without here entering 
on further details, I may state that I have collected cases 
of leg and shoulder stripes in horses of very different 
breeds, in various countries from Britain to Eastern 
China; and from Norway in the north to the Malay 
Archipelago in the south. In all parts of the world 
these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; 
by the term dun a large range of colour is included, 
from one between brown and black to a close approach 
to cream-colour. 
I am aware that Colonel Hamilton Smith, who has 
written on this subject, believes that the several breeds 
of the horse have descended from several aboriginal 
species—one of which, the dun, was striped; and that 
the above-described appearances are all due to ancient 
