Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-08
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets
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Continued from last 70eck.l
NATURAL HISTORY

MA UKAL HIS ORY
less distinct till after the first she'd when they
strongly before but certainly away age
horse increases Two other fading the
stripes old horses hand
that colts often without stripes hatthe appear
growsoder Three Norway the stripes are
less plain the foa than the adult In the described by
of the young oa which narrowly striped nearly all its body
there doubt about the early and complete disappearance
the stripes Mr. W. w Edwards examined twenty-five
OF acehorses and twelve had the spinal stripe less plain
this fact and other accounts which have received lead
believe that the spinal stripe often disappears the English
horse when old With Species young exhibit
characters which disappear a maturity.
The stripes variable in always darker than
the rest the body They do by any always
the different OF the body the legs striped without any
houderstpe, the which may occur
have heard either shoulder eg-strpcs spinal
stripe The latter by far the all the stripes might
have been expected characteristics the other eight
species of the 1t is remarkable that ang character
the shoudcrstripe being double triple should
fcrent breeds Wech and Dcvonre ponies the pony
heavy carthoes light South American horses the ank
Kawar breed Colonel Hamilton believes that one his
five supposed primitive and pcd and
that the stripes all the other breeds
with this primitive dun; but is extremely mprobab
ferent breeds living such distant quarters all
have been crossed with any aborgnay distinct
have any believe that the effects very
mote period would be propagaed for many generations
piled this view.
with respect to the primitive color of the horse having been
dun Colonel Hamilton Smith has collected large body
showing that this tint in the East back
time of Alexander and that the wild Western Asia and
Eastern Europe recently of various shades
1t seems that long ago wild breed
with spinal stripe preserved in the royal parks in Prussia
hear from Hungary that the inhabitants at the
duns with spinal stripe the aboriginal stock
Norway Dun-cOored ponies mountainous
parts DevOnshc Wales ABORIGINAL breed
would have the best chance of being preserved In
the time of Azara when the for about
two hundred and fifty years, ninety hundred
bai-chaans and the remaining brown not
than in thousand being black In North
fera horses show strong tendency become
shades but in certain parts from Dr. Garfield they are
mostly dun and striped.
I'm the following chapters the Pigeon that blue
that when this certain black invariably appear on the
wings and tail again when yarousy crossed
blue birds with the black marks frequently Produced We
shall further that these explained BY and afford strong
evidence favor Of the that all the from
the foePgeon Columbia H51a which is thus married.
But the appearance OF the stripes the various breeds the horse
"heq dun Color does afford nearly such good evidence
Welr descent from sAsie primitive stock in the Of the
pigeon because horse certainly wild is known standard OF
comparisons because the stripes when th>5 anncar are variable II
characters sufficient evidence that the
ing distinct breeds produces stripes and lastly because ali the
species 81 the genus Eduus have the spinal stripe and several species
have shoulder and leg stripes Nevertheless the similarity in the
distinct breeds in their general range OF color in their dappng
and the occasional appearance especially in duns OF egspes
and double triple houdcrstrpes taken together indicate the
probability of the descent OF all the existing single, dam
occasionally revert.
To be