Wild Horses, Asses and Zebras 387 
The True or Mountain Zebra is the second most beautiful of the zebra group, and 
is the smallest of the zebras. Its hoofs are more constricted than those of Burchell’s 
zebra, and better adapted for climbing mountainous country. A few remain in 
some of the districts on the east side of Cape Colony, where they are protected on 
the summuts of the Zwartberg, Sneuwberg and Winterhoek ranges. The mountain zebra 
stands about twelve and a half hands high. The legs are short; the ears are longer 
than Burchell’s zebra, and give to the animal a more asinine appearance. The body 
is silvery white, and the markings, of very dark brown, extend to every part of the 
body except the abdomen, which is white. The ears are broadly barred with black. 
The front of the muzzle is very brown. 
Photograph by G. W. Wilson, Aberdeen. 
MOUNTAIN ZEBRA. 
Burchell’s Zebra, inclusive of its numerous races, 1s a dweller im the open plains. 
It is still plentiful in the districts to the south of the Botletti river, to the north 
of the Kalahari desert, on the plains of the Chobi and Zambesi, in British Central 
Africa, German Hast Africa and British Hast Africa. 
The bands of dark brown on the Burchell’s zebra are not so distinct and 
beautiful even as those on the mountain zebra. ~In Portuguese East Africa this 
zebra was found lately to inhabit mountainous country. Burchell’s zebra stands thirteen 
hands high. It has frequently been broken to harness, and breeds well in captivity. 
In some races the legs are striped right down to the hoofs; one of these is known 
as Chapman’s zebra, and another as Grant’s zebra. 
