. The Penycuik experiments. ere afterwards found on islands adjacentto the storm areas—on islands and parts of islands to whichthe dismantled Armada ships might very well have , the Mulatto breed of ponies resembles well-bredblack horses often met with in Spain at the present the origin of the ponies in question, it is enoughthat they belong to a distinct breed, and that probablyonly once (in 1848) during many generations has freshblood been introduced into the isolated and somewhat inac-cessible Island of Rum, from whence Mulattos sire wasexported in 1888. As a pro
. The Penycuik experiments. ere afterwards found on islands adjacentto the storm areas—on islands and parts of islands to whichthe dismantled Armada ships might very well have , the Mulatto breed of ponies resembles well-bredblack horses often met with in Spain at the present the origin of the ponies in question, it is enoughthat they belong to a distinct breed, and that probablyonly once (in 1848) during many generations has freshblood been introduced into the isolated and somewhat inac-cessible Island of Rum, from whence Mulattos sire wasexported in 1888. As a proof of the isolation, or, in otherwordsj of in-breeding, crosses between Island of Rum 8 THE PENYCUIK EXPERIMENTS. ponies and other breeds present nearly all tlie charactersof the West Highland race. Mules generally strongly resemble their asinine pro-genitors, but the mules bred by the late Marquis of Salis-bury in the Island of Eum were observed on reachingHatfield to resemble ponies rather than donkeys. This, to Fig. Romulus (seven days old) and his dam, Mulatto. my mind, proves that Mulatto belongs to a well-markedand distinct breed, and that whatever the result mayeventually be, she is in every way as suitable, as welladapted for taking the place of the nearly purely bredArab mare used in Lord Mortons famous experiment, asthe zebra Matopo is an excellent substitute for the nowextinct or all but extinct quagga. It is only necessary to THE BIRTH OF A ZEBRA HYBRID. 9 add, before proceeding to describe the hybrid, that thefoals of the black Highland ponies are frequently at firstmouse-coloured, with in some instances a faint dorsalstripe, and a patch of dark hair at the shoulders, whichrepresents the bauds so often seen in dun-coloured Nor-wegian ponies. The dorsal stripe usually disappears soonafter birth, and the mouse-colour never reappears whenthe first or foals coat is once shed. Turning now to the hybrid, I may first mention that theperiod of gestation was normal, 3
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