1094 THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



Colonel J. A. Grant, who in company with his fellow-explorer, 

 Habits speke, first met with these zebras in the mountains north of the Vic- 



toria Nyanza, writes that they are found in herds comprising from two to nine indi- 

 viduals. " One of their number, probably the largest male, takes general charge of 

 the herd; and it was noticed that a large antelope kept watch and gave the alarm 

 on our appearance. They are rarely found outside the forest, preferring it to the 

 open plain, which is generally bare of grass; or they frequent a country with clumps 

 of dense brushwood, or with outcrops of granite, around which they get abundant 

 food, and they were never seen far from running water and hills. Their breeding 

 season was determined by foals following their mothers in the month of January, 



CREW'S ZEBRA. 

 (From Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., i882.) 



and by the shrill calls we heard, which came I presume, from the foals. The first 

 time I heard their call, I mistook it for that of a bird, and could scarely be per- 

 suaded till I heard the decided donkey notes following the shriller sounds. They 

 showed much sympathy when a comrade was wounded, lingering with the wounded 

 at the risk of their lives; they mingled with our laden donkeys one day on the 

 marsh. ' ' These zebras are found at elevations varying from two hundred up to two 

 or three thousand feet above the sea. 



The quagga or couagga (. quagga}, so far as color is concerned, 

 forms a connecting link between the zebras and the asses; but in its 

 short ears, and the extent to which the tail is haired, approximates to the horse. 

 In height it stands about the same as the true zebra; in color the upper parts are of 



Quagga 



