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ASSES, ZEBRAS AND EQUINE HYBRIDS. 



and sometimes exceeds 15 hands in height. In its confor- 

 mation, it more closely resembles the ass than the horse, 

 except in its feet (Fig. 628). Its ears are particularly 

 large and mobile. It is striped down to the coronets. Its 

 stripes are narrower than those of any other kind of zebra. 

 The difference between the stripes and those of the Bur- 

 chell's are shown in Figs. 622 and 629. These zebras have 

 a well-marked dorsal stripe ; and numerous and very 



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Fig. 627. — Gravy's zebra. 



[The Dccbess of bedfokd. 



narrow stripes on the croup, at the place occupied by the 

 gridiron ones of the mountain zebra. 



" The stripes get darker with age, while the intervening 

 spaces grow lighter. The neck stripes are for some time 

 darker than the body stripes, but even in the neck they 

 are never more than of a dark chocolate tint, while the 

 intervening spaces are of a white or light yellow dun. The 

 unstriped spaces above the narrow nostrils are of a light 



