mese and Javanese ponies are frequently dun-coloured,
and have the three kinds of stripes, "in the same degree as in
England."[132] Mr. Swinhoe informs me that he examined two light-dun
ponies of two Chinese breeds, viz. those of Shangai and Amoy; both had
the spinal stripe, and the latter an indistinct shoulder-stripe.

We thus see that in all parts of the world breeds of the horse as
different as possible, when of a dun-colour (including under this term
a wide range of tint from cream to dusky black), and rarely when of
bay, grey, and chesnut shades, have the several above-specified
stripes. Horses which are of a yellow colour with white mane and tail,
and which are sometimes called duns, I have never seen with
stripes.[133]

From reasons which will be apparent in the chapter on Reversion, I have
endeavoured, but with poor success, to discover whether duns, which are
so much oftener striped than other coloured horses, are ever produced
from the crossing of two horses, neither of which are duns. Most
persons to whom I have applied believe that one parent must be a dun;
and it is generally asserted, that, when this is the case, the
dun-colour and the stripes are strongly inherited.[134] One case has
fallen under my own observation of a foal from a black mare by a bay
horse, which when fully grown was a dark fallow-dun and had a narrow
but plain spinal stripe. Hofacker[135] gives two instances of
mouse-duns (Mausrapp) being produced from two parents of different
colours and neither duns.

I have also endeavoured with little success to find out whether the
stripes are generally plainer or less plain in the foal than in the
adult horse. Colonel Poole informs me that, as he believes, "the
stripes are plainest when the colt is first foaled; they then become
less and less distinct till after the first coat is shed, when they
come out as strongly as before; but certainly often fade away as the
age of the horse increases." Two other accounts confirm this fading of
the stripes in old horses in India. One writer, on the other hand,
states that colts are often born without stripes, but that they appear
as the colt grows older. Three authorities affirm that in Norway the
stripes are less plain in the foal than in the adult. Perhaps there is
no fixed rule. In the case described by me of the you