a high price.

[126] 'The Field,' July 13th, 1861, p. 42.

[127] E. Vernon Harcourt, 'Sporting in Algeria,' p. 26.

[128] I state this from my own observations made during several years on
the colours of horses. I have seen cream-coloured, light-dun and mouse-dun
horses dappled, which I mention because it has been stated (Martin,
'History of the Horse,' p. 134) that duns are never dappled. Martin (p.
205) refers to dappled asses. In 'The Farrier' (London, 1828, pp. 453, 455)
there are some good remarks on the dappling of horses; and likewise in Col.
Hamilton Smith on 'The Horse.'

[129] Some details are given in 'The Farrier,' 1828, pp. 452, 455. One of
the least ponies I ever saw, of the colour of a mouse, had a conspicuous
spinal stripe. A small Indian chesnut pony had the same stripe, as had a
remarkably heavy chesnut cart-horse. Race-horses often have the spinal
stripe.

[130] I have received information, through the kindness of the
Consul-General, Mr. J. R. Crowe, from Prof. Boeck, Rasck, and Esmarck, on
the colours of the Norwegian ponies. _See_, also, 'The Field,' 1861, p.
431.

[131] Col. Ham. Smith, 'Nat. Lib.,' vol. xii. p. 275.

[132] 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.

[133] _See_, also, on this point, 'The Field,' July 27th, 1861, p. 91.

[134] 'The Field,' 1861, pp. 431, 493, 545.

[135] 'Ueber die Eigenschaften,' &c, 1828, s. 13, 14.

[136] 'Naturalist's 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.

[137] Azara, 'Quadrupedes du Paraguay,' tom. ii. p. 307; for the colour of
mules, _see_ p. 350. 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