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ASSES, ZEBRAS AND EQUINE HYBRIDS. 



died in the London Zoological Gardens in 1864. It was a 

 strong, somewhat heavily-built animal, slow of pace for a 

 wild member of the Equidse, and comparatively docile. 

 " A pair of imported quaggas were in the early part of 

 last century driven about London in a phaeton by Mr. 

 Sheriff Parkins. Lieut. -Col. C. Hamilton Smith, in his 

 unpublished volume on the Equidae, 1841, states that he 



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Fig. 629. — Skin of Gr6vy's zebra. 



drove one in a gig, and that its mouth was as delicate as 

 that of a horse. He further stated that it had better 

 quarters and was more horse-like even than Burchell's 

 zebra, and added : ' It is unquestionably the best cal- 

 culated for domestication, both as regards strength and 

 docility ' " (Tegetmeier and Sutherland). Owing to its 

 deficiency in speed and alertness, and to the value set on 

 its hide by the Boers and on its flesh by their Hottentot 



