Origin of Species Variorum

→ I have myself seen a dun Devonshire pony, and 1861 1866 1869 1872

and a man, whom I can implicitly trust, has examined for me 1859 1860

→ has been carefully described to me, both with three 1861 1866 1869 1872

with three short 1859 1860

↑ 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

→ 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

stripe on each shoulder and with leg-stripes; →I have myself seen a dun Devonshire pony, and a small dun

Welsh

Welch

pony → has been carefully described to me, both with three 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

plainest

often 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

race-horse

racehorse

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;

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 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