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Show CuAP. J. DOMESTIC CATS. 48 or ra. t-ca t ch ers. Those ·ood breed of mouse l fter garne, gene-and values most a g tendency to prow a Ich petted, a . h h e a strong . 0 so mt cats wlnc av ra s As cats ar that lapdogs rally get destroyed by t r~iation to other cats, lued. and if · the same uch va ' breed bearmg uld have been m t "nly have had . doCYs, wo h ld cer ai bear to larger b been applied, we s ou £ r there is plenty Selection could have 1 -cl"vilized country, o · ach ong any breeds m e . · some in. m . T to work upon. . diversity m size, . of vanabi l~Y . untry cons1clerable . bility in colourmg. We see m this coh b ely and extreme vana b t have already the proporti·O ns of t e t o de'd to thi·s sub ".J e ct ' u f a cat born I have only late~y at :ncases of variation! .one s~ all its life. heard of som\:'~j~toothless, and remr:~!malo oat with its in the vV es~ . shown me the skull o trucled uncovered Mr. Tegetmewr h: developed that they pr~ ing ·95, and the canines so ~uc. the tooth with the f~ngh . e length. I have d the lips ' 6 f an me m l . beyon . . from the gum . o tail varies great y m part profJ ectmg "1 f six-toed cats. The . d r"ts tail flat on fami y o . 1 s carne . . heardh o I a have seen a cat whiCh a wayry . h pe and certam 1n s a , l.e ngbt' ;k when Pl ea sed · .T he earsi l-vh~k e t uf t of hairs ' aboveh "a Its . ac . n En land, inhent a penc ti s of their ears ; and t IS strams, I g_ h in length, on the p h haractorises some quarter of ~n ~nc ording to :M:r. ~lyt ' cl ·th of the tail 1 anty ace "l"t n tho eng same pecu ~ T' he great variabr I y I are ar)parently · Ind1a · the ears oats m . l"k tufts of ball"s o~ . of tho o-enus. A and tho lynx~i~e:enccs in certain wild ~~:Cle:o Daub~nton,95 is analogous to. rtant difference, accOid~dg· nd a third longer,. uch more lmpo f cats are WI cr, a b n mtl t the intestines of domes IC ·,e. and this apparently has ee 1a . f the same s1z , . than in wild cats o . tly carnivorous dwt. b their less stnc caused Y G" • tom. iii. p. 427. 'l:Iist. Nut. t:n., 95 Quoted by Isicl. Geoffroy, CUAJ·. IT. ITORSES: TITEIR VARIATION. 49 CHAPTER II. HORSES AND ASSES. HORSE.- DTFFERE:-l'OES IN TilE BREEDS- INDIVIDUAL VARUJ3JLrry OF- DIRECT EFFECTS OF TIIE CONDf'J'IONS OF LlFE- OAN WITHS'fAND MUCII COLD- BREEDS llfUCU UODll'IED BY SELECTION- COLOURS OF 'I.'HE IIORSE -DAPPLING- DARK STRIPES ON TliE SPINE, LEGS, SUOULDEUS, AND FOlmUEAD - DUN-COLOURED IIORSES li10S1' FHEQUENTLY STRIPED- S'fRIPES PlWBABLY DUE TO REVERSION TO 'I.'HE PRUHT'IVE STA'rE OF 'I.'UE llOilSE. ASSES. - BUEEDS OF - COLOUR OF ~ LEG- AND SIIOULDER- STRIPES - SHOULDERSTl~ IPES S0111E'l'lli1ES ABSENT, SOlllETWES FORKED. THE history of the Horse is lost in antiquity. Remains of this animal in a domesticated condition have been found in the Swiss lake-dwellings, belonging to the latter part of the Stone period.1 At the present time the number of breeds is great, as may be seen by consulting any treatise on the Horse. 2 Looking only to the native ponies of Great Britain, those of the Shetland Isles, Wales, the New Forest, and Devonshire are distinguishable ; and so it is with each separate island in the great Malay archipelago.3 Some of the breeds present great differences in size, shape of ears, length of mane, proportions of the body, form of the withers and hind quarters, and especially in the head. Compare the race-horse, dray-horse, and a Shetland pony in size, configuration, and disposition ; and see how much greater the difference is than between the six or seven other living species of the genus Equus. 1 Rlitimcycr, 'Fauna dcr Pfalbautcn,' 1861, s. 122. 2 See Youatt on the Horse : J. Lawrence on tho Uorsc, 1829 : W. C. L. Martin, 'History of the Horse,' 1845 : Col. Ham. Smith, in 'Naturalist's Library, Horses,' 1811, vol. xii.: Prof. Veith, · 'Die Naturgesch. Haussiiugethiere,' 1856. 3 Crawfurd, ' Dcscript. Diet. of Indian Islands,' 1856, p. 153. " 'l'hcrc VOL. I. are many different breeds, every island Laving at least one peculiar to it." Thus in Sumatra there are at least two breeds; in A chin and Batubura one; in Java sevem1 breeds; one in Bali, Lomboc, Sumbawa (ono of tho best breeds), Tambora, Bima, Gunung-api, Celebes, Sumba, and Philippines. Other breeds are specified by Zollinger in the 'Journal of the Indian Archipelago,' vol. v. p. 343, &c. E |