

V ERTEBRATA. 



-Mr ""' 



THE DACW. 



to the hoots are regularlv striped, mostly crosswise, with deep brown-black bands, lighter in 

 middle. From this form of marking we have the word zebraed, significant of a regular hand- 

 le skin of an animal. The ears of the zebra are long, the neck short and deep, with a 

 <>f dewlap under the throat, produced by a loose fold of the skin; the mane is short, and the 

 tail sparsely clad with long hair. The form resembles that of the ass, but the size nearly equals 

 that of the hoi • 



Wild and swift, this species lives in troops in the bold ranges of cra^i'v mountains remote from 

 of man. Its disposition is savage and intractable, and it is by no means easily ob- 

 tained, not only from its fleetness, but from the nature of the localities it frequents, where, like the 

 Thibet, in "the wilderness and the barren land is his dwelling; he scorneth the mul- 

 titude of the city." Nevertheless, zebras have been taken to Europe and placed in the menag- 

 A •" mpts to domesticate them, or to train them to the service of man, have failed ; 

 _■■. however, the King of Portugal had four of them, which he sometimes drove 

 harnessed to his carriag . 



1 <jssil Equid.e. — The remains of extinct Equida? have been found in the deposits of the pliocene 



in Europe, in India, and even in North and South America, where the horse did not exist 



at ti of the i - : olnmbns. These races in Xorth America appear to have flour- 



i atid perished with the Mastodon; in South America with the Megatherium. Whether 

 of the anm horn these bones belonged were similar to any existing species has not been 



rmined; Beveral species, however, are supposed to be made out, and have received appropriate 

 title* '-.A'.// . wssilis, E. curvideyis, <tc. 



