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vigorous animal, galloping round the enclosure Avhen a day 

 old and evincing considerable speed. Its colour is somewhat 

 remarkable, not resembling that of its white sire, but being- 

 very dark Avith pronounced shoulder and dorsal stripes, 

 black tips to its ears, and bars on the legs, which are well 

 marked, especially over the joints — the zebra from which 

 it was bred being a true Burchell, not marked on the legs 

 like the variety known as Chapman^ s zebra. The foal is 

 described as being a compact and well-made little animal, 

 showing splendid bone. As the progeny of the Burchell 

 zebra are likely to attract much attention, I reproduce 

 the photograph as it was published in the Australasian. 



In the Jardin d'Acclimatation there is another hybrid 

 between a BurchelFs zebra and a white Egyptian ass, which 

 shows three distinct shoulder stripes, but otherwise is very 

 faintly marked. 



A hybrid between a male BurchelFs zebra and the common 

 ass was bred by the Earl of Derby and figured in the 

 "Knowsley Menagerie." It was utilised by being driven in 

 tandem, and the skin was afterwards deposited in the 

 British Museum. The Hemione or Asiatic wild ass has also 

 been bred with Burchell' s zebra. 



QuAGGA {E. qiiagga) Hybrids. 



In Colonel Hamilton Smith's unpublished volume he 

 gives a portrait, drawn by himself, of a hybrid, the foal of 

 a quagga and a brood mare. This was faintly striped on 

 the fore-quarters. 



In the fine collection of plates known as the ^^ Knowsley 

 Menagerie '^ there are numerous illustrations of the wild 

 Equidae, more especially of the striped species inhabiting 

 Africa, namely, the Equus zebra, E. burchellii, and 

 E. quagga. All these species interbreed, not only -with 



