Identifier: penycuikexperime00ewar (find matches)
Title: The Penycuik experiments
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ewart, J. C. (James Cossar), 1851-1933
Subjects: Hybridization Telegony Horses
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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1 ^ TELEGONY AND REVERSION. 67
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d» TELEGONT AND REVERSION. quagga tliej resulted from reversion. I prefer the rever-sion explanation^ because it seems to me to be simpler andmore in accordance with established facts. I have fre-quently seen numerous zebra- or quagga-like stripes notonly in foals but also in aged horses^ stripes on the faceas well as on the shoulder, neck, body, and legs. Hencethe possibility of reversion may in the meantime be takenfor granted, and the further question asked. Were themarkings on the colts sufficient in themselves to provethat the Arabian mare had been infected by the quagga ?I think it must be admitted that the stripes taken by them-selves are barely sufficient to prove infection. If the paint-ings by Agasse (in the Royal College of Surgeons Museum,Lincolns Inn Fields, London) are accurate, Lord Mortonsquagga-hybrid (Fig. 14) was but feebly striped. Agasseshows three distinctbut short stripes across the left shoulder,four faint and still shorter stripes on the neck, ten cross-strip

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