BURCHELL'S ZEBRA, 



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barrel, and in the shape of its head and size of its ears. 

 The typical Burchell's zebra has no dark stripes, or only 

 very slight ones, below the elbows and stifles, on the legs, 

 which are white ; and the stripes on the hind quarters are 

 relatively faint. The Orange River has been generally 

 regarded as its southern limit. Mr. F. C. Selous, the 

 celebrated African sportsman and naturalist, tells me 

 that it " was first discovered by Burchell near the 

 Orange River in Southern Bechuanaland. It is still to 



Photo hy~[ [TUE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIKTV. 



Fig. 622. — Skin of Burchell's zebra. 



be met with in Kama's country, and along the northern 

 and eastern borders of the Transvaal. In the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Pungwe River, it exists in very great 

 numbers, herds of hundreds together being common." On 

 account of the fact that this zebra, when in a wild state, 

 possesses immunity from the effects of the bite of the 

 tsetse fly, which is a carrier of death to horses, I strongly 

 advocated, while I was in South Africa, the taming and 

 employment for harness or saddle of these animals in 



