THE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA. 



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more intractable to liandle than the Burchell zebra. The 

 height of the mountain zebra he gives when fully grown 

 as twelve hands. With regard to its utilization as a 

 domestic animal^ Capt. Hayes says that he has been 

 informed that it has been successfully ^' inspanned^^ in 

 South Africa, but that he has never heard of its being put 

 into draught between the shafts, and he points out that 



EQTJUS ZEBRA BROKEN TO SADDLE. 

 (From a photograph by Capt. M. H. Hayes.) 



the steadiness of an animal is much more accurately tested 

 by having to bear a weight upon its back than by merely 

 pulling against a collar when in a ^' span/^ and still more 

 so by carrying a rider than when in any kind of harness. 

 After making every inquiry in the colony he was unable 

 to obtain a single authenticated instance of any person 



