son made a sketch for
me of a large, heavy, Belgian cart-horse, of a fallow-dun, with a
conspicuous spinal stripe, traces of leg-stripes, and with two parallel
(three inches apart) stripes about seven or eight inches in length on
both shoulders. I have seen another rather light cart-horse, of a dirty
dark cream-colour, with striped legs, and on one shoulder a large
ill-defined dark cloudy patch, and on the opposite shoulder two
parallel faint stripes. All the cases yet mentioned are duns of various
tints; but Mr. W. W. Edwards has seen a nearly thoroughbred chesnut
horse which had the spinal stripe, and distinct bars on the legs; and I
have seen two bay carriage-horses with black spinal stripes; one of
these horses had on each shoulder a light shoulder-stripe, and the
other had a broad black ill-defined stripe, running obliquely half-way
down each shoulder; neither had leg-stripes.

The most interesting case which I have met with occurred in a colt of
my own breeding. A bay mare (descended from a dark-brown Flemish mare
by a light grey Turcoman horse) was put to Hercules, a thoroughbred
dark bay, whose sire (Kingston) and dam were both bays. The colt
ultimately turned out brown; but when only a fortnight old it was a
dirty bay, shaded with mouse-grey, and in parts with a yellowish tint:
it had only a trace of the spinal stripe, with a few obscure transverse
bars on the legs; but almost the whole body was marked with very narrow
dark stripes, in most parts so obscure as to be visible only in certain
lights, like the {58} stripes which may be seen on black kittens. These
stripes were distinct on the hind-quarters, where they diverged from
the spine, and pointed a little forwards; many of them as they diverged
from the spine became a little branched, exactly in the same manner as
in some zebrine species. The stripes were plainest on the forehead
between the ears, where they formed a set of pointed arches, one under
the other, decreasing in size downwards towards the muzzle; exactly
similar marks may be seen on the forehead of the quagga and Burchell's
zebra. When this foal was two or three months old all the stripes
entirely disappeared. I have seen similar marks on the forehead of a
fully grown, fallow-dun, cob-like horse, having a conspicuous spinal
stripe, and with its front legs well bar