ding along
the spine, from the mane to the tail; but this is so common that I need
enter into no particulars.[129] Occasionally horses are transversely
barred on the legs, chiefly on the under side; and more rarely they
have a distinct stripe on the shoulder, like that on the shoulder of
the ass, or a broad dark patch representing a stripe. Before entering
on any details I must premise that {57} the term dun-coloured is vague,
and includes three groups of colour, viz. that between cream-colour and
reddish-brown, which graduates into light-bay or light-chesnut--this, I
believe, is often called fallow-dun; secondly, leaden or slate-colour
or mouse-dun, which graduates into an ash-colour; and, lastly,
dark-dun, between brown and black. In England I have examined a rather
large, lightly-built, fallow-dun Devonshire pony (fig. 1), with a
conspicuous stripe along the back, with light transverse stripes on the
under sides of its front legs, and with four parallel stripes on each
shoulder. Of these four stripes the posterior one was very minute and
faint; the anterior one, on the other hand, was long and broad, but
interrupted in the middle, and truncated at its lower extremity, with
the anterior angle produced into a long tapering point. I mention this
latter fact because the shoulder-stripe of the ass occasionally
presents exactly the same appearance. I have had an outline and
description sent to me of a small, purely-bred, light fallow-dun Welch
pony, with a spinal stripe, a single transverse stripe on each leg, and
three shoulder-stripes; the posterior stripe corresponding with that on
the shoulder of the ass was the longest, whilst the two anterior
parallel stripes, arising from the mane, decreased in length, in a
reversed manner as compared with the shoulder-stripes on the
above-described Devonshire pony. I have seen a bright fallow-dun,
strong cob, with its front legs transversely barred on the under sides
in the most conspicuous manner; also a dark-leaden mouse-coloured pony
with similar leg stripes, but much less conspicuous; also a bright
fallow-dun colt, fully three-parts thoroughbred, with very plain
transverse stripes on the legs; also a chesnut-dun cart-horse with a
conspicuous spinal stripe, with distinct traces of shoulder-stripes,
but none on the legs; I could add other cases. My