I have also reason to suspect, from information given me by Mr.W.W.Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal.

I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse.

This foal, when a week old, was marked on its hinder quarters and on its forehead with numerous very narrow, dark, zebra-like bars, and its legs were feebly striped.

All the stripes soon disappeared completely.

Without here entering on further details I may state that I have collected cases of leg and shoulder stripes in horses of very different breeds in various countries from Britain to Eastern China; and from Norway in the north to the Malay Archipelago in the south.