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Show 58 llORSES. CHAP. II. stripes which may be soon on black kittens. Those stripes wor~ Clistinc~ on tho hind-quarters, whore they diverged from tho spine, and pomtod a ~ttlo forwards· many of them as they diverged from the spine became a little branched'' exactly in tho same manner as in so·m e zobrihn o sptehc i ys f..o rmThedo stripes woro plainest on tho forehead between tho cars, V: c~o 0 a sot of pointed arches, one under tho other, decreasing m sJze ~ownwn:rds towards the muzzle ; exactly similar marks may be seen on the forehead of tho qnagga and Burchell's zebra. When this foal was two _or_ throe months olcl all tho stripes entirely di. appeared. I have seen s1m1lar. marks on tho forehead of a fully grown, fallow-dun, cob-like horse, havmg a con-spicuous spinal stripe, and with its front legs well barred. . . In Norway tho coloUl' of tho native horse or pon~ is d:m, varym~ from almost cream-colour to dark mouse-dun; and an arumal 1s not consHlorod purely br d unless it has tho spinal and log stripe .31 1?- one par~ of tho country my son estimated that about a thlrd of tho poruo~ had_ stnpod logs; he counted seven stripes on tho fore-logs and two on the .hm<l-logs of one pony; only a few of them exhibited traces of houldor-stnpos .i but I have l10ard of a cob imported from Norway which had tho shoulder as well as the other stripes well developed. Colonel Ilam. Smith 32 alludes to dun-horses with tho spinal stripe in the Sierras of Spain; and the horses origi11ally derived from Spain, in some parts of South America, arc now duns. Sir W. Elliot informs me that he inspected a herd of 300 South American horses in1portcd into Madras, and many of those had transverse stripes on the legs and short shouldor-stTipcs; tho most strongly ma1·kcd individual, of which a coloured drawing was sent me, was a mouse-dun, with tho boulder-stripes slightly forked. In tho North-Western parts of India striped horses of more than one brood are apparently commoner than :in any other paTt of tho world ; and I have received information respecting them from several officers, especially from Colonel Poole, Colonel Cm·tis, Major Campbell, Brigadier St. John, and others. Tho Kattywar hor. os arc often fifteen or sixteen hands in height, and arc well but lio-htly built. They arc of all colours, but tho several kinds of duns prevail; and these arc so generally striped, that a horse without stripes is not considered pure. Colonel Poole believes that all tho duns have the spinal stripe, the log-stripes are generally present, and he thinks that about half tho horses have the shoulder-stripe; this stripe is sometimes double or treble on both shoulders. Colonel Poole has often seen stripes on the cheeks and sides of the nose. IIo has soon stripes on tho grey and bay Kattywars when first foaled, but they soon faded away. I have received other accounts of cream-coloured, bay, brown, and grey Kattywar horses being striped. Eastward of India, tho Shan (north of Burmah) ponies, as I am informed by Mr. Blyth, have spinal, log, and shoulder stripes. Sir W. Elliot informs me that he saw two bay Pegu ponies with 31 I have received information, through tho kindness of tho ConsulGeneral, 1\'lr. J. R. Crowe, from Prof. Boock, Hasek, anll :Esmnrck, on the colours of tho Norwegian ponies. See, also, 'The Field,' 18Gl, lJ· 4.31. 32 Col. Ham. Smiib, 'Nat. Lib.,' vol. xii. p. 275. CllAP. II. THEIR COLOURS AND STRIPES. 59 log-stripes. Burmcs~ and Javanese ponies arc f1·oquentl du _ Man d hSa v.e hth o th. r~o e kmds of stripes ' "in tho sa me de gree ays . n coloured, ill England "33 r: wm oo IDlorms me that he examined two li ht-dun . . . Cluncso breeds, viz. those of Shangai and Amoy. bot: h d th po~lOs of ~0 and tho latter an in~istinct shoulder-stripe. ' a o spmal stnpo, W o thus soc that ill all parts of tho world broods of th . . as :r:ossible, when of a dun-colour (includin tmdor th. e h~Ise as. different of tmt from cream to dusky blacl') an·, g l ls tmm a Wide range h t l d . ' .. ' ' u. rare y when of bay d c osn~ s 1a os, have tho several abovo-spcoificcl tr· ' ~ey, ~n arc o£ a yellow colour with white man d t '1 s lpe~. Horses whwh called duns, I havo never seen with sh~~:~.34 al' and whwh arc sometimes From reasons which will be apparent in th have endeavoured, but with poor success t di o ch~pter on Reversion, I arc so .much oftener striped than otho~ ~olo~~o~er whether duns, which ducod from tho crossing of two hors 'th o h?rsos, arc over pro-t 1 es, nm . or of whwh are d M persons o w wm I have applied belie th t uns. ost and it is generally assorted that h vethia _one parent must be a dun. d th ' ' w en s lS tho case th d ' an o stripes arc strongly inherited :la 0 ' e un-colour own observation of a foaH'rom a bla~k· marcn~ case has fallen under my fully grown was a clark fallow-d d y a bay horse, which when stripe. Hofacker Jo gives two ins:U an ;lad a narrow but plain spinal produced from two parents of dill ~nc~s ~ mouse-duns (Mausrapp) being I have also endeavoured with litotrlen co ours and neither duns. ' e success to find out h th th . are generally plainer or loss pi . . th w c or e stnpcs Colonel Poole informs me that, :~n h~n bo:e!oal ~han in ~he adult horse. when the colt is first foaled. they th b os, tho stripes are plainest after tho fu·st coat is shed wll th on ecomo less and less dist:inct till certainly often fade away 'as t~~ a ~y come out as s_trongly as before; but accounts confu·m this fading of t~o s~~·i tho ~orse mcroase~." Two other writer, on the other hand states th t lptes ill old horses m India. Ono bu t tha t they appear as tho' co' lt . a col d s arc often bo rn Wl' tho ut stripes in No~·way tho stripe!:! arc less pl~:~7: ~he o;~al ~~roo. authorities affirm that there lS no fixed rule. In tho case describ d an ill the adult. Perhaps was narrowly striped over noarl 11 't e by me of the young foal which tho early and complete disa ' _Y a 1 s body, ~here was no doubt about . d ppoaianco of tho stnpos Mr w w Ed examme for me twenty-two foal f " . . . . wards spinal stripe more or loss plain. th~ ~. ;-ace-horses, and twelve had the I have received loa.d me to b 1: th ac ' and ~orne other accounts which . th , e love at the spmal st . r~- di ill e English race-horse when old :I~o o wn sappoars are generally plainest in tho foal . d ~ndthe w~olo I ~er that the stripes ' an n to disappear ill old age. Th e stn·p es are variable in c 1 b than the rest of the b l Th o our, ut are always darker O( Y· ey do not by any means always 33 Mr.~· Clark, in • Annal and Mag. of NA.t. History,' 2nd series, vol. li., 1848 p. 363 .. Mr. Wallace iuforms me that he saw ~n Java a dun and clay-coloured horse Wlth spinal and leg stripes. 34 See, also, on this point, • The Field , July 27th, 1861, p. 91. ' 3" ' The Field,' 18G1, pp. 431, 493 545. ar. ' Ueber clio Eigcnscllaften .' &c 1828, s. 13, 14. • ., |