52 ZEBRAS, QUAGGAS, AND ASSES 



zebra is a very hoarse kind of grunt, varied by something approaching 

 to a whistle, the grunts being long drawn out and divided by the shrill 

 whistling sound, as if the latter were made by drawing in the breath 

 which had been expelled during the sustained grunt. 



To the south and west the limit of the range of Equus grevyi 

 appears to be the Tana river from the sea to where the Mackenzie 

 river enters from the north, and thence along the latter river to its 

 source in the Jambeni Hills ; the boundary then seems to follow that 

 range to Mount Kenia, and thence crosses the Gwaso Nyiro to the 

 Lorogi Mountains, from which line it is continued to the south end of 

 Lake Rudolf. 



THE QUAGGA 



(Equus quagga) 



HOTTENTOT NAME, QuaJia 



(PLATE ii, fig. 2) 



The extinct South African quagga, like the following striped 

 species, has the callosities on the front legs larger than in Grevy's 

 zebra, and the stripes broader. Whenever, in this group, the hind- 

 quarters are striped, the stripes are obliquely longitudinal, with the 

 uppermost ones arising from the hind part of the body, where their 

 upper extremities are bent backwards towards the root of the tail in 

 such a manner that there is no concentric arrangement round the latter. 

 The muzzle is dark and usually black, and the stripes on the nose are 

 continuous with the dark patches round the nostrils. The ears are 

 narrow. 



In the quagga, which was confined to the open karoo, or plains 

 south of the Orange river, the ears are comparatively small, the front 

 hoofs are rather large, and full striping is developed only on the head, 

 neck, and fore-quarters, although in some specimens spots on the flanks 

 indicate disappearing stripes farther back. The stripes stop short of 

 the lower surface of the body. The general colour appears to have 

 been yellowish red, or chestnut, although it is now impossible to be 

 certain on this point. 



In the British Museum this species is represented by the mounted 

 skin and skeleton of a male formerly living in the Zoological Gardens 

 in Regent's Park. That animal, which was one of the last survivors, 

 was presented to the Zoological Society by Sir George Grey in 1858, 



