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Page 127 - They have the character of the Arabian breed as decidedly as can be expected, where fifteen-sixteenths of the blood are Arabian; and they are fine specimens of that breed; but both in their color and in the hair of their manes they have a striking resemblance to the quagga.
Page 127 - The stripes across the fore-hand of the colt are confined to the withers, and to the part of the neck next to them; those on the filly cover nearly the whole of the neck and the back, as far as the flanks. The colour of her coat on the neck adjoining to the mane is pale and approaching to dun, rendering the stripes there more conspicuous than those on the colt. The same pale tint appears in a less degree on the rump: and in this circumstance of the dun tint also she resembles the quagga [p.
Page 84 - It is an attested fact that, if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a signal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the ring before it touches the water...
Page 127 - Ouseley's stud groom alleged that it never was otherwise. That of the colt is long, but so stiff as to arch upwards and to hang clear of the sides of the neck, in which circumstance it resembles that of the hybrid.
Page 127 - ... on the fore-hand, are fewer and less apparent than those on the colt and filly. These circumstances may appear singular ; but I think you will agree with me, that they are trifles compared with the extraordinary fact of so many striking features, which do not belong to the dam, being in two successive instances, communicated through her to the progeny, not only of another sire, who also has them not, but of a sire belonging probably to another species ; for such we have very strong reason for...
Page 126 - I tried to breed from the male quagga and a young chestnut mare of seven-eighths Arabian blood, and which had never been bred from: the result was the production of a female hybrid, now five years old, and bearing, both in her form and in her colour, very decided indications of her mixed origin.
Page 84 - His nest usually consists of two or three chambers ; and it is the popular belief that he lights them with fire-flies, which he catches alive at night and confines with moist clay or cow-dung.
Page 140 - ... at the choice of the proprietor, should be produced from each of them. Two of the members of the Society offered their flocks to become the subjects of his experiments, and the results have now been communicated, which are in accordance with the author's expectations. " The first experiment was conducted in the following manner : — He recommended very young rams to be put to the flock of ewes, from which the proprietor wished the greater number of females in their offspring ; and also, that,...
Page 84 - Bayas are aflembled on a high tree, they make a lively din, but it is rather chirping than...
Page 83 - ... the Indian figtree, and he prefers that which happens to overhang a well or a rivulet ; he makes it of grass, which he weaves like cloth, and shapes like a large bottle, suspending it firmly on the branches, but so as to rock with...