[36] Mr. G. Clark, in ‘Annal and Mag. of Nat. History,’ 2nd series, vol. ii. 1848, p. 363. Mr. Wallace informs me that he saw in Java a dun and clay-coloured horse with spinal and leg stripes.
[37] See also on this point, ‘The Field,’ July 27th, 1861, p. 91.
[38] ‘The Field,’ 1861, pp. 431, 493, 545.
[39] ‘Ueber die Eigenschaften,’ etc., 1828, s. 13, 14.
[40] Von Nathusius, ‘Vorträge über Viehzucht,’ 1872, 135.
[41] ‘Nat. Library,’ vol. xii. (1841), pp. 109, 156 to 163, 280, 281. Cream-colour, passing into Isabella (i.e. the colour of the dirty linen of Queen Isabella), seems to have been common in ancient times. See also Pallas’s account of the wild horses of the East, who speaks of dun and brown as the prevalent colours. In the Icelandic sagas, which were committed to writing in the twelfth century, dun-coloured horses with a black spinal stripe are mentioned; see Dasent’s translation, vol. i. p. 169.
[42] Azara, ‘Quadrupèdes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. p. 307. In North America, Catlin (vol. ii. p. 57) describes the wild horses, believed to have descended from the Spanish horses of Mexico, as of all colours, black, grey, roan, and roan pied with sorrel. F. Michaux (‘Travels in North America,’ Eng. translat., p. 235) describes two wild horses from Mexico as roan. In the Falkland Islands, where the horse has been feral only between 60 and 70 years, I was told that roans and iron-greys were the prevalent colours. These several facts show that horses do not soon revert to any uniform colour.
[43] Dr. Sclater, in ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,’ 1862, p. 164. Dr. Hartmann says (‘Annalen der Landw.’ B. xliv. p. 222) that this animal in its wild state is not always striped across the legs.
[44] W. C. Martin, ‘History of the Horse,’ 1845, p. 207.
[45] Col. Sykes’ Cat. of Mammalia, ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.’ July 12th, 1831. Williamson ‘Oriental Field Sports,’ vol. ii., quoted by Martin, p. 206.