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and a man, whom I can implicitly trust, has examined for me 1859 1860
I have myself seen a dun Devonshire pony, and 1861 1866 1869 1872

with three short 1859 1860
has been carefully described to me, both with three 1861 1866 1869 1872

1 blocks not present in 1859 1860 1861; present in 1866 1869 1872
I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turcoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse; this foal when a week old was marked on its hinder quarters and on its forehead with numerous, very narrow, dark zebra-like bars, and its legs were feebly striped: all the stripes soon disappeared completely.

mouse-duns; 1859 1860 1861 1866 1872
mouse duns; by 1869

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
Welsh
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
this
the
breed for the Indian Government, a horse without stripes is not considered as purely-bred. The spine is always striped; the legs are generally
barred,
barred;
and the shoulder-stripe, which is sometimes double and sometimes treble, is common; the side of the face, moreover, is sometimes striped. The stripes are
often plainest
plainest
in the
foal,
foal;
and
some- times
sometimes
quite disappear in old horses. Colonel Poole has seen both gray and bay Kattywar horses striped when first foaled. I
have
have,
also
also,
reason to suspect, from information given me by Mr. W. W. Edwards, that with the English
racehorse
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
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
by
the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to
cream colour.
cream-colour.
I am aware that Colonel Hamilton Smith, who has written on this subject, believes that the several breeds of the horse
are
have
descended from several aboriginal
species —
species—
one of which, the dun, was striped; and that the above-described appearances are all due to ancient