During the two
following years she had two foals which Lord Morton thus
describes: "They have the character of the Arabian breed as
decidedly as can be expected when 15/16 of the blood are Arabian,
and they are fine specimens of the breed; but both in their color
and in the hair of their manes they have a striking resemblance
to the quagga. Their color is bay, marked more or less like the
quagga in a darker tint. Both are distinguished by the dark line
along the ridge of the back, the dark stripes across the
forehand, and the dark bars across the back part of the legs."
The President of the Royal Society saw the foals and verified
Lord Morton's statement.
"Herbert Spencer, in the Contemporary Review for May, 1893, gives
several cases communicated to him by his friend Mr. Fookes, whom
Spencer says is often appointed judge of animals at agricultural
shows. After giving various examples he goes on to say: 'A friend
of mine near this had a valuable Dachshund bitch, which most
unfortunately had a litter by a stray sheep-dog. The next year
the owner sent her on a visit to a pure Dachshund dog, but the
produce took quite as much of the first father as the second, and
the next year he sent her to another Dachshund, with the same
result.
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