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servants, it was finally exterminated by the Afrikanders 

 and natives. No attempt was made by naturalists to 

 save this animal from extinction. 



It stood about the height of the Burchell's zebra, and 

 its colour on the shoulders and body was brown. The head 

 and neck were marked alternately with white and dark- 

 brown stripes, hke those of the mountain zebra. There 

 were on the shoulders and body some faint stripes, which 



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Fig. 630. — The Quagga. 



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gradually faded away as they went backwards. The 

 colour was more or less white beneath the chest and belly, 

 on the tail, except at its root, and on the legs below the 

 elbows and stifles. It had a broad dark stripe down the 

 back. It closely resembled Burchell's zebra, with the 

 exception of being differently marked, and being more 

 heavily built. It was evidently a zebra. 



Horse and Ass Hybrids. — A mule is the produce 



