ZEBRA CHARACTERS 



coloration and elaborate striping. The quagga, with 

 its striped foreparts and plain hindparts, is a kind of 

 terrestrial mermaid compounded of the forequarters of 



a Burchell's zebra, with the hindquarters of a plain 

 donkey. It is intermediate between the two races, and 

 the danger of lingering at a halfway house is evidenced 



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