NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



are the larvce of a species of fly. They attach them- 

 selves to the inner walls of the stomach. 



The Mountain Zebra stands about forty-eight 

 inches, viz. tw^elve hands, and is smaller than the 

 other South African species, viz. Burchell's Zebras, 

 and can easily be distinguished from them by the 

 following points : 



(i) The hairs along the withers and haunches are 

 reversed. 



(2) No forelock is present on the forehead. 



(3) Ground colour of body varies from ochre- 

 yellow to pure white. Body fully striped, the 

 stripes not extending round the barrel. Feet striped 

 to the hoofs. 



(4) Ears long and ass-like. 



(5) A gridiron pattern of transverse bars on the 

 haunches. 



A troop of Mountain Zebras exist on the tops of 

 some rugged hills on a certain gentleman's estate in 

 the district of George in the Cape Province. A 

 hunt was organised, and the party, mounted on 

 good horses, succeeded in detaching a mare from 

 the troop. They headed her down to the foot of the 

 mountain and captured her. The following day 

 she was brought in to Port Elizabeth, and within a 

 week gave birth to a premature foal. This was in 

 May 1909. The foal was still-born about a month 

 before the normal time. Instead of being yellowish- 

 white and fully striped, as is usual with the full-time 

 foals of Mountain Zebras, its body colour was Hght 



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