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Darwin was abundantly familiar with the fact that stripes now and again appear on the shoulder, legs, neck, and face in horses in all parts of the world and of various breeds and colours. Hence I imagine that, on coming to the conclusion that the quagga had affected the character of the subsequent offspring begot by the black Arabian horse, he was not a little influenced by Lord Morton's description of the mane in the colt and filly. Undoubtedly stripes together with an erect or nearly erect ma...ne would practically prove infection had taken place. This leads me to consider the evidence afforded by the mane iu the Ouseley colts. Lord Morton, referring to the mane, says, " That of the filly is short, stiff, and stands upright, and Sir Gore Ouseley's stud-groom alleged that it never was otherwise ; that the mane of the colt is long, but so stiff' as to arch upwards and to hang clear of the sides of the neck, in which circumstance it resembles the hybrid. This is the more remarkable as the manes of the Arabian breed hang lank, and closer to the neck than those of most others." When some daj-s ago I re-examined the oil-paintings by Agasse of Lord Morton's mare, her quagga-hybrid, and her three foals to Sir Gore Ouseley's black Arab horse I specially noticed, as was previously pointed out by Sette- gast, that the mane of the filly (Fig.
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