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rlous that he could only get a young specimen. The specimen at 

 Exeter Change is not very docile, being much more wild than the 

 Zebra ; its name is derived from its voice, which resembles the 

 barking of a dog. 



When the skin of the animal, which I consider to be, and which 

 agrees with BufFon's figure of the young of, this species (except in 

 having the brown ring above the hoof) was shown to Professsor 

 Temminck by Mr. Children, he declared it to be the Ane Isabelle 

 of Vaillant ; but with all due respect to the knowledge of that 

 naturalist, who so greatly excels in the knowledge of species, I am 

 sorry that I cannot accord with him in this instance ; although I 

 must allow that he ought to know Vaillant's animals better than 

 any other person, as that celebrated traveller was a constant cor- 

 respondent of his; if it be that animal, Vaillant must have over- 

 looked the bands, and I can hardly call it Isabella colour. 



Sp. 3. Asinus Burchellii. Burchell's Zebra. 



A. Albidus, nucha dorsoque fasciis alternis nigris et fuscis, 

 nigris latioribus, linea dorsali nigra albido-marginatis ; ventre, 

 Cauda, artubusque infasciatis. 



Equus Zebra. Male. F. Cuvier. Menag. Mas. 



Equus Zebra. Burchel. Trav. j. 139. 



Icon. Tab. 6. Burchel. Trav. Vig. p. 252, a tanning vat of the 

 skin. 



Inhabits Africa. The flat parts near the Cape, Burchell. Mus. 

 Brit. V. M. 



Description. — Body white; head with numerous narrow brown 

 stripes, which gradually unite together and form a bay nose ; the 

 neck and body with alternate broad stripes of black and narrow 

 ones of brown, the latter of which nearly fill up the interspaces 

 between the black stripes, and only leave a narrow whitish margin. 

 The dorsal line is narrow, and becomes gradually broader in 

 the hinder part, distinctly margined with white on each side. 

 The belly^ legs, and tall, quite white ; the mane alternately 

 banded with blackish and white. 



The figure of this animal, Plate IX. fig. 1. is from the skin in 

 the British Museum, which was brought home by Mr. Burchell, 

 and which will shortly be set up and exposed to public view. 



