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THE DAUW. 



Hippotigrts Burchelli. 



PLATE XXIII. MARE AND FOAL. 



Bontequagga of the Cape colonists. — Peechy of the Bechuana 

 and Matalibi. 



Notwithstanding that the merit of first noticing 

 this species is due to the enterprising and scientific 

 traveller whose name it bears, we doubt his ap- 

 proving the practice of bestowing proper names on 

 species in honour of persons, so long as more appro- 

 priate may be selected, and believe he would him- 

 self have preferred anotlier, such as H. campestris, 

 by which it is designated in our own series. 



The Dauw, hke the former animal, is about 

 thirteen hands and a half at the shoulder; the 

 body is round, the legs robust, crest arched, black, 

 and surmounted by a standing mane, five inches 

 high, banded black and white; the ears smaller 

 than in the former, less open, with only one black 

 bar and white tip; tail tufted to near the root, 

 or semi-equine, white, and about thirty-six inclies 

 long ; region round the nostrils and mouth blackish ; 

 head, neck, body, and croup light bay ; below and 

 limbs white ; numerous black streaks forming ovals 

 on the face, broader in chevrons of the same on the 

 side of jaws, and vertical still wider down the neck, 



