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mal," says Mr. Burchell, " has hitherto been confounded 

 by naturalists with the Zebra. When these were first de- 

 scribed by modern writers, the Couagga was considered to 

 be the female zebra, while both that and the true zebra, 

 bore in common among the colonists, the name of Quakka. 

 The Wilde Paarde, named Dauw by the Hottentots, and a 

 much scarcer animal than the other two, was never sus- 

 pected to be a different species, though it be far more dis- 

 tinct from the Quakka and Zebra, than these are from each 

 other. 



" The hoofs of animals," says Mr. Burchell, "destined 

 by nature to inhabit rocky mountains, are, as far as I have 

 observed, of a form very different from those intended for 

 sandy plains ; and this form is in itself sufficient to point 

 out the Dauw as a separate species. The stripes of the 

 skin will answer that purpose equally well, and show at the 

 same time the great affinity and specific distinction of the 

 Ass> which may be characterized by a single stripe across 

 the shoulders. The Quakka has many similar marks on 

 the head and fore part of the body: the Zebra is covered 

 with stripes over the head and the whole of the body, but 

 the legs are white ; and the Wilde Paarde is striped over 

 every part even down to the feet. The Zebra and Wilde 

 Paarde may be further distinguished from each other, by 

 the stripes of the former being brown and white, and the 

 brown stripe being double, that is, having a paler stripe 

 within it ; while the latter, which may be named Equus 

 Montanus, is most regularly and beautifully covered with 

 single black and white stripes: added to this, the former is 

 never to be found on the mountains, nor the latter on the 

 plains." 



END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. 



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