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THE HEMIOXUS, OR WILD ASS. 



Afncanus}. He has four projecting tusks, and long sharp tufted 

 ears. His stature, his feet, his tail, the mane of stiff bristles which 

 garnishes his neck, identify him with the wild boar ; but his body, 

 almost naked on the flanks and hinder part, likens him to an hippopo- 

 tamus. He is gregarious, of fierce and brutal habits, and lives chiefly 

 in the bushes or tall herbage. 



The Solidungulse (or Solid-hoofed), which roam among the wide 

 pasturages of the Tropical regions of the Ancient World, contrast, by 



[HE QUAGGA.. 



the elegance of their forms and the beauty of their clothing, with the 

 unwieldy Pachyderms, of rugged and swarthy hide, placed by Cuvier 

 under the same classification. The Wild Horse does not exist in 

 these latitudes, though we may find there the most beautiful species 

 of the genus: the Hemione, the Onagra, the Zebra, the Daw, and the 

 Quagga. The Hemionus ("half-ass"), which we are endeavouring 

 to acclimatize in Europe, and numerous specimens of which may be 

 seen in the Zoological Gardens of London and Paris, is of a clear 



