276 EQUID^. 



M. F. Cuvier has applied the Hottentot name for the true Zehra 

 to this sjiecies, and used for it the name E. montanus (which Burchell 

 gave to that animal), though it only inhabits the plains. 



tt Hoofs narrow, deeply concave heneath ; ler/s cross-banded. Living on 

 the mountains. 



7. Asinus zebra. (The Zebra.) 



White ; head, body, and legs to the hoofs black-banded ; nose 

 reddish ; belly and inside of thighs not banded ; tail-end blackish. 

 Hoofs narrow, deeply concave beneath. Skull — suborbital foramen 

 as in E. hemionus. 



Zebra indica, Aldrov. Solid, p. 416, fig. ; Rail, Syn. p. 64. 



Equus indicus, Jonston, Quad. t. 5. 



Equus brasUiensis, Jacob. Mi(s. Reg. p. .3, t. 2. f. 1. 



Hippotigris, Dio Cass. Hist. 1. 77. 



Equus zebra, Linn. S. iV. i. p. 101 ; Schreb. Saugeth. t. 316. 



Asinus zebra, Gray, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 248, t. 9. f. 3 (hoofs); Cat. 



Mamni. B. M. p." 183; Osteol. Spec. B. 31. p. 70; J. Brookes, 3Ius. 



Cat. p. 20, 1828. 

 Zebre, Buffon, H. N. xii. 1. 12. 

 Zebra, Ray, Quad. p. 69 ; Penn. Quad. ; Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. 



f. 479, 508. 

 Sebra, Stuhb. 



Hippotigris campestris, H. Smith, 3IS. I. c. p. 329. 

 Equus montanus, Burchell, Travels, i. pp. 139, 265, ii. p. 270 ; Harris, 



W. A. Africa, i. 24. f. 1. 

 Male Zebra, Edwards, Glean, i. t. 222. 

 Wild Paard or Wild Horse of the Dutch Colonists, Burchell, Trav. ; 



Harris, I. c. p. 7. 

 Wilder Esel, Kolbe. 



Daow (or True Zebra) of the Cape Colonists, Harris, I. c. p. 7. 

 Zeura or Zuora, Lobo, Abyss, i. p. 291 ? 

 Wild Ass, Kolbe, Cape, ii. p. 112. 

 Var.? Hippotigris zebra (the Zebra), H. Smith, Equidee, p. 324, 



t. 21. 

 Hippotigris antiquorum (the Congo Dauw or Zebra of Pigafetta), 



H. Smith, Equida, p. 327. 

 Hippotigris antiquormu (Angola Dauw), H. Smith, Equidee, t. 21, 



Sab. South Africa, mountains. 



There is in the British Museum a skeleton from South Africa, 

 two skulls from South Africa, a skull of a male Mule between Zebra 

 and Ass, and the skull of a hybrid between Asinus zehra and Asinus 

 vulgaris, presented by the Zoological Society of London. 



3Iules or Hybrids of tJie different species of Horses. 



1. The Common Mule (the hybrid between the Ass and the 

 Mare). 



Mulus, Rail Quad. p. 64. 

 Equus asinus mulus, Gmelin. 

 Equus mulus, Schreb. t. 214. 



