| → legs; according to Mr. Gosse, in certain parts of the United States about nine out of ten mules have striped legs. 1866 1869 1872 |
| 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 |
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| → might 1869 1872 |
| at first would 1859 |
| would at first 1860 1861 1866 |
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| → was a hybrid-zebra; 1869 1872 |
| must have been the product of a zebra; 1859 1860 1861 1866 |
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| → Devonshire and Welch ponies, 1861 1866 1869 |
| Welch pony, 1859 1860 |
| Devonshire and Welsh ponies, 1872 |
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| → chance, 1866 1869 1872 |
| an accident, 1859 1861 |
| an acci- dent, 1860 |
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common mule from the ass and horse is particularly apt to have bars on its
→legs; according to Mr. Gosse, in certain parts of the United States about nine out of ten mules have striped legs. I once saw a mule with its legs so much striped that any one
→might
have
that it
→was a hybrid-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
→Devonshire and Welch ponies,
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
→chance,
that I was led solely from the occurrence of the face-stripes on this hybrid from the ass and
to ask Colonel Poole whether such face-stripes ever
in the eminently striped Kattywar breed of horses, and was, as we have seen, answered in the affirmative. |
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| What now are we to say to these several facts? We
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