...expressly for breeding them. I have noticed a very curious circumstance connected with these animals, viz. that in a great number, perhaps in nine out of every...the legs are banded with transverse dark stripes, more or less distinctly. If I remember aright, Mr. Bell, in his " British Quadrupeds," mentions a mule...

...expressly for breeding them. I have noticed a very curious circumstance connected with these animals, viz. that in a great number, perhaps in nine out of every ten, ike legs are banded with transverse dark stripes, more or less distinctly. If I remember aright, Mr....

...are not nearly so numerous in England as asses, I have seen a much greater number with striped Jegs, and with the stripes far more conspicuous than in...the whole front part of its body like a zebra, but ias no stripes on its legs, or mere traces of them. But in the famous hybrid bred by Lord Morton from...

...stripes are more frequent and conspicuous in the mule than in the ass. In the United States, Mr. Gosse,33 speaking of these animals, says, " that in a great...the legs are banded with " transverse dark stripes." Many years ago I saw in the Zoological Gardens a curious triple hybrid, from a bay mare, by a hybrid...

...zebra-like marks on its legs, and remarks that mules are particularly liable to be thus striped on the legs. In South America, according to Roulin, such...the legs are banded with transverse dark stripes." Mules with striped legs can be seen in great numbers every day in the streets of Baltimore, and the...

...are more frequent and conspicuous in the mule than in tho ass. In the United States, Mr. Gosse, 33 speaking of these animals, says, " that in a great number, " perhaps in nine out of every ten, tho legs are banded with " transverse dark stripes." The legs of the ass are often striped, and this...

...frequent and conspicuous in the mule than in the ass. In the United States, Mr. Gosse,33 speakin,' of these animals, says, " that in a great number,...the legs are banded with " transverse dark stripes." Many years ago I saw in the Zoological Gardens a curious triple hybrid, from a bay mare, by a hybrid...

...more frequent and conspicuous in the mule than in the ass. In the United States, Mr. Gosse,38 spe^kin^ of these animals, says, " that in a great number, " perhaps in nine out of every ten, tho legs are banded with * transverse dark stripes." Many years ago I saw in the Zoological Gardens...

...with strong zebra-like marks on its legs, and remarks that mules are particularly liable to be thus striped on their legs. In South America, according...in nine out of every ten, the legs are banded with dark transverse stripes." In a later paragraph Darwin continues as follows : " From these facts we...