Near side (W^1F^1C^1) showing whorl, feathering and crest along upper line of division (W^2F^2C^2) a second fully-formed whorl, feathering and crest, crossing both upper and lower lines of division, and ending at W^1. Grey pony, examined 23rd May, 1903.] [Illustration: Fig. 17.--Side of Neck of Horse. Near side (W^1F^1C^1) whorl, feathering and crest, fully-formed, cutting upper line of division at obtuse angle and a second whorl, feathering and crest (W^2F^2C^2) along anterior part of common line of division. Roan hackney, examined 7th November, 1903.] [Illustration: Fig. 18.--Side of Neck of Horse. Off side, simple whorl, behind ear at edge of mane.] [Illustration: Fig. 19.--Side of Neck of Horse. Simple whorl (W) at edge of mane midway between ears and base of neck.] There are pictured here the normal type, divergent hair-streams partially reversed, simple whorls in different regions, a whorl and feathering, whorls, featherings and crests, and these in several areas. It is a veritable portrait gallery in which is portrayed the earliest and latest stages of this family of fashions in hair on the horse’s neck. They are grouped mostly in pairs. Fig. 6 shows the normal slope and by its side Fig. 7 gives a view of the best specimen of a completed whorl, feathering and crest I have been able to examine, _the whole length of the neck being occupied by it_. So in this pair the normal and most extensive departure from it lie side by side. Fig. 8 shows the way in which two streams of hair close up to the ears begin to diverge. Fig. 9 a similar divergence towards the base of the neck. Fig. 10 gives not only a divergence, but a well-marked turn in the upper hair-stream and Fig. 11 the way in which this divergent turn of hair is being converted into a feathering. Fig. 12 presents a stream of hair still more twisted from its course than that of Fig. 10, and Fig. 13 a whorl going on to a feathering which loses itself, without coming to an abrupt stop in a crest which is the more usual course. Fig. 14 is a common type of whorl, feathering and crest in the most usual situation. Fig. 15 a rarer and more complicated instance of a simple whorl, a gap and then a whorl, feathering and crest in the same “critical area.” Fig. 16 and Fig. 17 are rare cases of irregularly placed double whorls, featherings and crests, and give evidence of unusually complicated traction of adjoining muscles underneath this battle-field of hair. Figs. 18 and 19 show a simple whorl, situated at the very edge of the mane, a very “critical” area because this looser and heavy part of the neck is very much subject to jolting during the horse’s action.