Returning to the other portion of the racing man's question namely what points should be looked for to detect a cross in the Mongolian pony, I submit that this is where the intuition and cultivated observation of the pra tical man is of more service an the scientist. The mere fact that a mam is engaged in the breeding of animals, indicates thi; he is an enthusiast and his enthusiasm will reveal to him minor differences, not easy to describe, which are not apparent to others. Therefore it lis not to be expected that those who have not been very closely - connected with animals and the breeding of them will have their powers of observation sufficiently trained in this direction to detect evidence of cross breeding.
It has been previously stated that the Mongolian pony only differs from other equines in the degree in which he possesses characters common to both and it fis my opinion that the characters concerned lie in the coarseness amd distribution of the hair on body, tail amd mane, the shape and size of the eye cavity, the shape of the upper portion of the neck, the shape of the foot and in some instances of course the height.
Stating these differences from comparative point of view between the true Mongolian pony and] the half-bred Mongolian pony one would say that the short hairs covering the body of the true Mongolian pony are decidedly coarser, longer and more numerous than those of the halfbred, that there are longer hairs growing from the skin covering the back tendons to the heels, that the mane is thicker with the hairs coarser and stiffer, that the mane grows from a greater area in width, that there is a fringe of short hairs growing from the upper portion and sides of the base of the tail, that the long hairs of the tail grow from a larger area and are more numerous, that the eye is smaller and more sunken (pig- eyed), that the line of the neck is not straight but' curves with the apex of the curve pointing downwards (ewe-
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