Show COLOR coi on OF ARAD ARAB Ilon HORSES sEs A writer ter in in blackwood black Blac wood speaking sp eakin of horse deabi dealing n g in in syria an and d the color of arab h horses says gray of various various shades bay chestnut and brown are the ordinary and it may ma almost be said 1 the only I 1 colors of an arab horse the commonest of all colors is is one which I 1 recollect aa a being very frequent among the arabs met in in india a dark uniform nutmeg nutmeg gray L light ight gray ver cring upon white is neither rare nor peculiar to old horses next to gray in in frequency comes bay and chestnut both fine and rich in in quality and the latter so prized above all colors by the arabs that they have a saying that at if you ever hear of a horse performing any remarkable feat you willbe will bp to find upon 01 inquiry that thai he is a chestnut brown is is not and in in my my register of horses brought from Aria zeh I 1 find one black but so rare is is that color that if I 1 had merely trusted to my recollection I 1 should have said I 1 never saw a blade black horse in in the desert of other colors I 1 saw none except inthe in the solitary instance of a skewbald and I 1 cannot at this moment merit undertake to say that he ha was art an kanazeh or og belong to sone some so ne of the tribes where the purity of the breed can less be depended on |