. The Penycuik experiments. amilton district. Like Biddy, sheis a bay with black points, but, unlike the Irish mare, shehas a large blaze on the face, a heavy mane and tail,and a liberal amount of hair at the fetlock-joints. LadyDouglas is fifteen hands high, the circumference at theknee is thirteen and a half inches, and below the kneenine inches. The face is longer than in Biddy by nearlyan inch, and the ears by three quarters of an inch. Iexpected Brenda (the Clydesdales first foal) to closelyresemble Remus in colour and markings; but in breeding. ZEBRA-HORSE HYBRIDS. 43 more especially in
. The Penycuik experiments. amilton district. Like Biddy, sheis a bay with black points, but, unlike the Irish mare, shehas a large blaze on the face, a heavy mane and tail,and a liberal amount of hair at the fetlock-joints. LadyDouglas is fifteen hands high, the circumference at theknee is thirteen and a half inches, and below the kneenine inches. The face is longer than in Biddy by nearlyan inch, and the ears by three quarters of an inch. Iexpected Brenda (the Clydesdales first foal) to closelyresemble Remus in colour and markings; but in breeding. ZEBRA-HORSE HYBRIDS. 43 more especially in cross-breeding, the unexpected oftenhappens. We are too apt to forget that, even when thesire belongs to a different and very distinct species, theprogeny may take after the cross-bred dam. It wasevident soon after Brenda (Fig. 12) was foaled that shediffered not a little both from Romulus and Remus. Inthe first place her ears looked extremely long; they wereat birth six and a half inches, only a quarter of an inch Fig. I Brenda : two months old. shorter than the ears of her dam, and quite as long as thoseof her sire; at six months they were seven and a halfinches. On the other hand, the head is relatively short—shorter than the head of a twelve-hands Iceland ponyshybrid. The height at the withers was forty-three inches,one inch more than in Remus, and four inches more thanin the Iceland hybrid. At birth Brenda, apart from herears, looked not unlike an ordinary bay foal, but soon 44 THE PENYCUIK EXPERIMENTS. faint stripes began to show themselves, and in a day ortwo the stripes, though indistinct, were seen to closelyagree in their arrangement with those of the other that the Clydesdale hybrid is nearly seven monthsold, she at a little distance might easily be mistaken foran ordinary foal. Compared with Remus the head isshorter and finer, while the joints are larger and theshanks thicker. At six months the circumference at theknee Avas ten and a quarter inche
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