. The Penycuik experiments. Mulattos Second Foal. When, however, the foal was carefully examined in asuitable light, numerous stripes revealed themselves. Thefoal was of a dark bay, in some parts almost of a browncolour, and as the majority of the stripes were only a shadedarker than the rest of the coat, they were, except in a TELEGONY AND REVERSION. 151 favorable Hglit, difficult to see and almost impossible topbotograpb. When a week old Mr. Edwin Alexander^was kind enough to fill in the more important stripes inan outline sketch, a photograph of which is reproducedin Fig. 43. I carefully co
. The Penycuik experiments. Mulattos Second Foal. When, however, the foal was carefully examined in asuitable light, numerous stripes revealed themselves. Thefoal was of a dark bay, in some parts almost of a browncolour, and as the majority of the stripes were only a shadedarker than the rest of the coat, they were, except in a TELEGONY AND REVERSION. 151 favorable Hglit, difficult to see and almost impossible topbotograpb. When a week old Mr. Edwin Alexander^was kind enough to fill in the more important stripes inan outline sketch, a photograph of which is reproducedin Fig. 43. I carefully compared the sketch with thefoal, and had no difficulty in making out all the stripesshown in the figure. While some of the stripes werequite distinct to the eyes of even unskilled observers,others were most subtle and only visible in certain lights. Fig. Mulattos Second Foal. Fig. 44 has been reproduced from a photograph takenwhen the foal was ten days old. In the zebra the hairs of the dark stripes and bandsare pigmented from root to tip. In Romulus the darkhairs are as a rule only pigmented to within about half aninch of their roots, whereas in Mulattos second foal there * To Mr. Alexander, jun. (already noted for his accnrate and beautifuldrawings of animals), I am greatly indebted for the sketch (Fig. 43) ofMulattos second foal. 152 TELEGONY AND REVERSION. was only a faint change of colour neai* the apex of the hairsforming the indistinct stripes. If the stripes in this foalare due to infection, the hairs forming them couldhardly be expected to be as deeply and extensively pig-mented as in the half-zebra Romulus. As Fig. 43 shows,there are cervical but do shoulder stripes, numerousstripes on both the fore and hind legs, vertical stripesacross the body, oblique stripes across the loins, faintstripes across the flank feather, and, m
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