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THE HIPPOTIGRINE GROUP. 



was one of a breed he saw domesticated and la- 

 bouring along with asses at Lucknow. * It differs 

 from the fine specimen in the Zoological Gardens, 

 in having the nose black and the proportions fuller, 

 or such as domestication would render them. 



Dauw. 



Zebra. 



THE HIPPOTIGRINE GROUP, 

 OR ZEBRAS. 



We are now arrived at the third form of Equidse, 

 one completely separated from all the others by 

 being geographically confined to South Africa, ex- 

 tending little beyond the equator. Owing to this 

 circumstance none of the species were known to the 

 ancients, excepting, it appears, in one instance, 

 where Xiphilinus, in his abridgment of Dion Cas- 



* Phamaces, Satrap of Phrygia, brought nine of them to his 

 government, whereof three were Uving in the time of Pharna- 



basus his son. — Aristotle Which shows that they were no 



longer wild in Western Asia in the era of Alexander, though 

 the ostrich still roamed in Mesopotamia. Aristotle seems to 

 overlook his former assertion, or to confound two species. 



