322 THE HIPPOTIGRINE GROUP. 



There exist several engravings of striped Equidae 

 in the older writers, Jonston, De Bry, Kolben, &c. : 

 of these the uppermost in plate v. of Jonston alone 

 is not drawn from fancy; it represents, like the 

 others, a Dauw, but clearly from a skin : Kolben's, 

 though absolutely worthless, is meant for that of the 

 Cape Zebra. All might have been better known 

 and figured at that time, since several authors had 

 noticed the Galla and Congo Dauw ; one had actu- 

 ally been sent from Cairo to the king of Naples, 

 and Tillesius, Thievenot, and others assert that they 

 had seen domesticated individuals. 



This group, in general, has the head of inter- 

 mediate length between the Equine and Asinine ; 

 the neck naturally fuller, more arched; the mane 

 vertical, forming a standing crest : there is more 

 girth, muscle, and compactness than in the fore- 

 going ; the lower jaw more curved ; the ears wider, 

 though lanceolated ; the shoulder more oblique, and 

 the withers more elevated than in asses ; the hoofs 

 higher, and as in the horse they are round and flat, 

 in the ass oval and hollow, so in the species of Hip- 

 potigris they are oval at the toe and square at the 

 heel, by the spreading of the frog; which causes 

 the limb to stand more vertically upon the pastern : 

 the tail is always, but especially in youth, more se- 

 taceous than in asses, and less than in horses. They 

 are all partially or entirely marked with symmetri- 

 cal stripes of black and white, or with fulvous 

 intermediate passing downwards across the body 

 and neck : all have the limbs white, with callosities 



