Geschlecht und Charakter : eine prinzipielle Untersuchung / von Otto Weininger.

Date:
1905
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    and a young chesnut mare of seven-eighths Arabian blood and which had never been bred from: the result was the pro- duction of ^ female hybrid, now five years old, and bearing, both in her form and in her colour, very decided indications of her mixed origin. I subsequently parted with the seven-eighth Arabia mare to Sir Gore Ouseley, who has bred from her by a very fine black Arabian horse. Iyesterday morningexamined thepro- duce, namely, a two-years old filly, and a year-old colt. They have the character of the Arabian breed as decidedly as can be expected, where fifteen-sexteenths of the blood are Arabian; and they are fine specimens ofthat breed; but both in their colour, and in the hair of their manes, they have a striking resem- blance to the quagga. Their colour is bay, marked more or less like the quagga in a darker tint. Both are distinguished by the dark line along the ridge of the back, the dark stripes across the fore-hand, and the dark bars across the back-part of the legs. 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 cir- cumstance of the dun tint also she resembles the quagga — — [p. 22] These circumstances may appear singulär; but I think you will agree with me that they are trifles compared whit the extra- ordinary 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 supposing the quagga to be. I am, my dear Sir Your faithful humble servant Morton. (S. 308, Z. 24.) Besonders ausführlich H. Settegast, Die Tier- zucht, 4. Aufl., Bd. I: Die Züchtungslehre, Breslau 1878, S. 223 bis 234: Infektion (Superfötation). Er verweist alles in das Gebiet des Aberglaubens und der Phantastik. »So kommen wir denn zu dem Schluß, daß die vermeintliche Infektion der Mutter auf einer Täuschung beruht, und daß es unzulässig ist, durch sie die Fälle erklären zu wollen, in welchen das Kind in Farbe und Abzeichen, in Form und Eigenschaften der Übereinstimmung mit den Eltern