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broad black stripes of the flanks and haunches fainter 

 stripes are generally to be seen. 



This animal is generally spoken of as the 

 "quagga" by colonists and hunters, but it must 

 not be confounded with the species to be described 

 under that name presently. Its flesh is greatly rel- 

 ished by the natives as food, and its hide is very 

 valuable as leather. By far the greater proportion 

 of zebras exhibited in European zoological gardens 

 and menageries at the present time belong to this 

 species, and it is frequently bred in confinement, and 

 the attempts made to break it in, and train it for 

 riding and driving, have been attended with partial 

 success. 



In 1882 a living zebra was sent from Shoa, a 

 country lying to the south of Abyssinia, to the then 

 President of the French Republic, who deposited it 

 in the Jardin des Plantes, and, being obviously dif- 

 ferent from any that had hitherto been seen in Eu- 

 rope, it was named by M. Milne-Edwards Equus 

 grevyij in compliment to his political chief. On a 

 white ground-color, it is very finely marked all over 

 with numerous delicate, intensely black stripes, ar- 

 ranged in a pattern quite different from those of the 

 other species. In view of the great variability of the 

 markings of these animals, as long as but one indi- 

 vidual of this form was known some doubts were 



