THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 



59 



Although in other respects it stands closer to the ass than 

 to the horse, in having the hoofs rounded in front it resembles 

 the horse, but in having long heels and a large frog it agrees 

 with the African asses, whilst the chestnuts are small 1 . It 

 thus differs essentially from the following group. 



The Burchell Zebra (Equus burchelli). As we advance 



FIG. 28. The Somali Zebra. 



southwards this zebra or group of zebras is first met with in 

 Equatorial Africa. It is named after the traveller Burchell, 

 who was the first in modern times at least to call attention to 

 it, having met it near the Orange River in southern Bechuana- 

 land. Yet from Pigafetta's 2 description of the first zebra known 



1 Pocock, loc. cit. ; Hayes, Points of the Horse, p. 667, fig. 628 (for sole of foot). 



2 A Eeport of the Kingdome of Congo a Kegion of Africa, Drawn out of the 

 writings and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippe Pigafetta, 

 Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell (London, 1597), p. 73. The 

 original was published at Eome by Bartolomeo Graffi, 1591. A Dutch trans- 



