Chapter II: Appendix

THE MAKING OF THE SHETLAND PONY 113

NOTES 173

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHANGING QUARTERS _Frontispiece_

A SCANDINAVIAN ROCK-DRAWING _Facing page_ 4

THE HORSE ON THE BRESSAY STONE ” 12

BY THE VOE ” 26

GOING SOUTH ” 30

COMING FROM MARKET ” 38

CARRYING PEAT ” 44

JACK (16) ” 50

ODIN (32) ” 54

MULTUM IN PARVO (28) ” 58

THOR (83) ” 60

PRINCE OF THULE (36) ” 64

SAPPHIRE (1276) ” 68

BOADICEA (998) ” 72

STELLA (1692) ” 76

FOALS IN SUMMER ” 90

A TEAM OF MARES ” 100

A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK ” 104
_By permission of the Proprietors of ‘Punch.’_

ON DUTY ” 108

ILLUSTRATION PLATES IN APPENDIX.

PLATE I. _At end_

Fig. 1. A 41-inch Java Pony.

Fig. 2. A Norwegian Udganger Pony.

Fig. 3. A 42-inch Pony of the Udganger type from Iceland.

PLATE II. ”

Fig. 4. Skeleton of Highland Chieftain, a 33-inch Shetland
Pony.

Fig. 5. Skeleton of Persimmon, a 66-inch Thoroughbred.

PLATE III. ”

Fig. 6. Skull of Eric, a 36·5-inch Shetland Pony.

Fig. 7. Skull of a new-born foal, Celtic type.

Fig. 8. Skull of a wild Prjevalsky horse, from Mongolia.

PLATE IV. ”

Fig. 9_a_. Cannon-bone, Eric.

Fig. 9_b_. Cannon-bone, _Protohippus_.

Fig. 9_c_. Cannon-bone, _Hypohippus_.

Fig. 10. Fore and hind foot, _Eohippus_.

Fig. 11. Fore and hind foot, _Orohippus_.

Fig. 11_a_. Forefoot, _Neohipparion_.

Fig. 11_b_. Engraving of a small-headed horse.

PLATE V. ”

Fig. 12. _Eohippus_, 12 inches.

Fig. 13. _Orohippus_, 16 inches.

Fig. 14. _Mesohippus_, 24 inches.

Fig. 15. _Hypohippus_, 40 inches.

Fig. 16. _Merychippus_, 36 inches.

Fig. 17. Shetland, 33 inches.

PLATE VI. ”

Fig. 18. Skeleton of fore-foot of _Mesohippus_.

Fig. 19. Forefoot of _Merychippus_ (or _Protohippus_).

Fig. 20. Forefoot of _Hypohippus_, the Miocene “forest” horse.

Fig. 21. Upper molar, _E. stenonis_.

Fig. 22. Upper molar, _E. fossilis_.

Fig. 23. Premolar and molars of a small mediæval? horse from
Aberdour, Aberdeenshire.

Fig. 24. Premolar and molars of a small horse from the Roman
Fort, Newstead.

The Shetland Pony.