| → I am not at all satisfied with this theory, and should be loth to apply it to breeds so distinct as 1859 1860 1861 |
| I am not at all satisfied with this view, and should be loth to apply it to breeds so distinct as 1866 |
| this view may be safely rejected; for it is highly improbable that 1869 |
| this view may be safely rejected, for it is highly improbable that 1872 |
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| → world. 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
| world, should all have been crossed with one supposed aboriginal stock. 1869 1872 |
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| → legs. 1859 |
| legs: according to Mr. Gosse, in certain parts of the United States about nine out of ten mules have striped legs. 1860 1861 |
| legs; according to Mr. Gosse, in certain parts of the United States about nine out of ten mules have striped legs. 1866 1869 1872 |
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| → at first would 1859 |
| would at first 1860 1861 1866 |
| might 1869 1872 |
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| → must have been the product of a zebra; 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
| was a hybrid-zebra; 1869 1872 |
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| → Welch pony, 1859 1860 |
| Devonshire and Welch ponies, 1861 1866 1869 |
| Devonshire and Welsh ponies, 1872 |
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| → an accident, 1859 1861 |
| an acci- dent, 1860 |
| chance, 1866 1869 1872 |
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crosses with the dun stock. But
→I am not at all satisfied with this theory, and should be loth to apply it to breeds so distinct as
the heavy Belgian cart-horse,
ponies,
the lanky Kattywar
inhabiting the most distant parts of the
→world.
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| Now let us turn to the effects of crossing the several species of the horse-genus. Rollin asserts, that the common mule from the ass and horse is particularly apt to have bars on its
→legs. I once saw a mule with its legs so much striped that any one
→at first would
have
that it
→must have been the product of a zebra;
and Mr. W.
Martin, in his excellent treatise on the horse, has given a figure of a similar mule. In four coloured drawings, which I have seen, of hybrids between the ass and zebra, the legs were much more plainly barred than the rest of the body; and in one of them there was a double shoulder-stripe. In Lord
famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the
by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga. Lastly, and this is another most remarkable case, a hybrid has been figured by Dr. Gray (and he informs me that he knows of a second case) from the ass and the hemionus; and this hybrid, though the ass
has stripes on
legs and the hemionus has none and has not even a shoulder-stripe, nevertheless had all four legs barred, and had three short shoulder-stripes, like those on the dun
→Welch pony,
and even had some zebra-like stripes on the sides of its face. With respect to this last fact, I was so convinced that not even a stripe of colour appears from what
commonly
called
→an accident,
that I was led solely from the occurrence of the face-stripes on this hybrid from the ass and
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