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ASSES, ZEBRAS AND EQUINE HYBRIDS. 



(Portuguese West Africa). Mr. Selous tells us that this 

 zebra, which is also known as " The True Zebra," " seems 

 never to have been an inhabitant of the plains, like all its 

 cogeners, but to have confined its range entirely to moun- 

 tain districts." We learn from Sir Cornwallis Harris that 

 it never herded with the quagga or Burchell's zebra. It 

 has a more tufted tail, a scantier mane, thicker neck and 

 longer ears than the Burchell zebra. Its legs, especially 



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[L. Medland. 



Fig. 619. — Kiang. 



as regards the back-tendons and suspensory ligaments, 

 are not as well suited to civilized requirements as 

 those of the Burchell zebra. Its stripes are black or 

 dark brown, on a white ground. The most distinctive 

 difference between the arrangement of its stripes and those 

 of other zebras, is the existence of a number of transverse 

 (" gridiron ") stripes, which run across the top of its loins, 

 croup and tail. In some instances, this zebra is white on 

 the underneath part of the body. With this exception. 



