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row, and nearly fill up the spaces between' the black ones. 

 Dorsal line narrow before but gradually widens towards the 

 tail, and is distinctly margined on each side with white. The 

 belly, legs, and tail quite white ; the mane alternately banded 

 black and white. Rather smaller than the Zebra. 



Inhabits South Africa, — plains towards Latakoo. 



Equus Zebra, Male, F. Cuv. Menag. Mas. Equus Zebra, 

 Burchell, Travels, i. 139. 



Order RUMINANTIA.* 



Teeth of three sorts ; incisors in the lower-jaw only, usually 

 eight in number, opposed to a callosity in the upper jaw ; 

 canines in some species in the upper-jaw, in others, in both, in 

 most none ; cheek-teeth or molars almost always six on each side, 

 in both jaws ; articulation of the jaw disposed for a grinding ^ 

 motion ; no clavicles ; extremities disposed for walking ; the toes 

 . externally, two anterior, rudimentally in most, two posterior, 

 all unguiculated, excepting: the posterior of some. Single 

 metacarpal and metatarsal bones to each foot ; organs of diges- 

 tion disposed for chewing the cud ; four stomachs ; intestines 

 long; mammfe two or four, always inguinal; horny or osseous 

 horns in the males, and often the females of most species. 

 Food invariably vegetable. 



Tribe CAMELID.E. 



No horns : no succentorial hoofs ; no muzzle ; nostrils slit : 

 upper-lip divided, separately moveable, and extensible ; horny 

 soles to the feet ; toes covered with crooked unguicular claws 

 or nails ; canines in both sexes ; neck long ; limbs long ; lower 

 abdomeu drawn up under the pelvis, retromingent. • 



Genus Camelus. Linnceus. 



Incisors i, canines \ k, false violarsVi, Molars i 5, — 36. Inferior 

 incisors in trenchant quoins, the superior lateral and cuneiform ; 

 canines conical, straight, robust ; false molars on each side, 

 separated from the other teeth; in the diastema, and uncinated; 

 headlong; chaffron convex; no sinus under the eyes; 7iostnls 

 slit obliquely, axd closing at pleasure; eyes prominent; ears 

 small; pores at the lack of the head , feet with toes only free, 

 the rest united ; neck bent ; one or two hunches on the back much 

 developed ; callosities on the sternum, and flexures of the ex-- 

 tremiiies; tail reaching to the tarsus; mammce four ; hair 



• The descriptions &c. of the animals of thh Order, with but few ex- 

 ceptions, have been copied almost verhalim from the excellent Mono- 

 graph of Col. Hamilton Smith, contained iu Griffith's Translation of the 

 Animal Kingdom, vol. v. 



