316 MAMMALIA—ZEBRA. 
and tameness from his earliest years, he would become as mild as the ass 
and the horse, and might be substituted in their room. 
The zebra is chiefly found in the southern parts of Africa; often seen near 
the Cape of Good Hope, and a penalty of fifty rix dollars is inflicted on any 
person who shoots one of them. Such of them as are caught alive, are 
presented to the governor. Several have been brought to England; but 
except in one instance, they have all displayed great wildness, and even 
ferocity. The exception was in that which was burnt some years ago at 
Exzter Change. It would allow young children to be put upon its back, 
an: was once ridden from the Lyceum to Pimlico; but it was bred and 
reared iu Portugal, from parents half reclaimed. in several other cases, 
zebras have attempted to injure spectators, and have not even spared their 
keepers. The voice of this creature is thought to have a distant resem- 
blance to the sound of a post horn. 
THE-ZEBRA OF THE Ea ADNS.- 
Tue zebra which we have just described, is confined to tae mountains 
the subject of the present article inhabits the flat parts near the Cape. Till 
very recently, the difference between them was not accurately understood. 
“The ground color of its whole body,” says Mr Bennett, ‘‘is white, inter- 
rupted by a regular series of broad black stripes extending from the back 
across the sides, with narrower and fainter ones intervening between each. 
Over the haunches and shoulders, these stripes form a kind of bifurcation, 
between the divisions of which there are a few transverse lines of the same 
color; but these suddenly and abruptly cease, andsare not continued on the 
legs, which are perfectly white. Along the back there is a narrow, longitudi- 
nal line, bordered on each side with white. The mane is throughout broadly 
and deeply tipped with black, and is marked by a continuation of the trans- 
verse bands of the neck. ‘The lines of the face are narrow and beautifully - ° 
regular; from the centre of the forehead they radiate downwards over the 
eyes; along the front of the muzzle they are longitudinal, the outer ones 
having a curve outwards; and on the sides they form broader transverse 
Lands. From the confluence of these bands on the extremity of the muz- 
zle, the nose, and the lower lip, those parts become of a nearly uniform 
blackish brown. The tail is white: there is no longitudinal ventral line 
and a large black patch occupies the posterior part of the ear, near the tip 
The hoofs are moderately large, deep in front, shallow behind, and much 
expanded at their margin.” 
The subject of the present article, which has now been about two years 
in the menagerie, will suffer a boy to ride her about the yard; and ig 
— 
' Equus montanus, BurcHE. 
