B. CHAMPION CLYDESDALE "BARON'S PRIDE" black stripes reaching down to the feet. It is limited to the Cape Colony and is rapidly disappearing. These last three are sometimes united into a special genus, Hippotigris. (7) The tions of the Russian traveler Prejevalsky in 1881 added another species to the list of Asiatic forms, which has been called after him. The long hairs of the tail begin only half-way down it; the mane is short and erect, and there is no lock; the head is large and heavy; the ears smaller than those of the ass. It inhabits the dry sultry regions of the Dzungarian desert, living in companies of 15 to 20, each led by a stallion. Only two herds were observed, and only one specimen was secured. The native country of the horse seems to have been Central Asia. It became early cated in Egypt. The Creeks and mans had some covering to secure their horses' hoofs from injury. In the 9th century horses were only shod in time of frost. Shoeing was introduced into England by William I., 1066.
It was believed that the original breed of horses is extinct, and that the half wild herds existing in many places have descended from animals once in cap tivity. Thus when the horse was first introduced by the Spaniards in 1537 at Buenos Ayres, it is believed that there were no wild horses in America. But
individuals escaping ran wild, and by 1580 their descendants had spread over the continent as far as the Straits of Magellan. Their favorite abode is on the Pampas, where they now exist in un told numbers. In Paraguay the larva of a fly kills them. In 1764 they were intro duced into the Falkland Islands by the French with a similar result. But there was found in La Plata a now extinct species of horse, and more Equidm have been found in the New than in the Old World. The horse may have descended from a striped ancestor, stripes still sometimes remaining, especially in duns and mouse-duns. His present colors are brown, gray, or black, sometimes with roundish pale spots. His age is ascer tained by examining first which teeth are developed, and then to what extent they have been worn away by use. They are best tamed by kindness. Like other domestic animals the horse has run into various breeds. The most celebrated is the Arab horse. The racehorse, the hunter, and the carriage horse all vary considerably in character.