180 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
transverse bands. From the confluence of these bands 
on the extremity of the muzzle, the nose, and the lower 
lip, those parts become of a nearly uniform blackish 
brown. The tail is white: there is no longitudinal ven- 
tral 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. 
Of the habits of these animals in a state of nature we 
know but little. They inhabit the flat parts near the 
Cape of Good Hope, the common Zebra being confined 
to the mountains. All the attempts that have been made 
to domesticate either the one or the other, and to render 
them serviceable, have hitherto failed; but there seems 
no good reason why they should not, with proper ma- 
nagement, be brought as completely under subjection 
as the other species of the genus. 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 is frequently allowed to run loose through 
the Tower, with a man by her side, whom she does not 
attempt to quit except to run to the Canteen, where she 
is occasionally indulged with a draught of ale, of which 
she is particularly fond. 
