SYNOPSIS OF THE 



down the middle of each band. As big as a moderate 

 horse. 



Equus Zebra, Lin. Zebra, Ray. Zebra ImWeo., John. Equus 

 Brasiliensis, Jacob. Mus. Regn. Hippotigre, Dio7i. lib. 77. 



Icon. Jacob. I. c. pi. 3. Buffon, t. xn. pi. 1, and 2. Ciiv. 

 Menag. da Mus. 



Inhabits Southern, and probably nearly the whole of 

 Africa. 



756. 6. E. Montanus (the Dauv/, Mountain, or Berg 

 Paart.) Covered with pure single black and white stripes 

 down to the hoofs. 



Equus Montanus, BurcheWs Travels. Gray, Zool. Journ, 



Icon. Gray, I. c. pi. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. 



Order VII.— RUMINANTIA. Pecora, Lin. 



By Charles Hamilton Sinith, Esq., F.R.S., ^c. 8fc. 



Teeth of three sorts ; incisors in the lower-jaw only, 

 usually eight in number, opposed to a callosity in the 

 upper-jaw ; canines in some species in the upper-jaw, in 

 others, in both, in most none; cheek-teeth or molars 

 almost always six on each side, in both jaws ; articulation 

 of the jaw disposed for a grinding motion ; no clavicles ; 

 extremities disposed for walking ; the toes externally, two 

 anterior, rudimentally in most, two posterior, all unguicu- 

 lated, excepting the posterior of some. Single metacarpal 

 and metatarsal bones to each foot ; organs of digestion 

 disposed for chewing the cud ; four stomachs ; intestines 

 long ; mammae two or four, always inguinal ; horny or 

 osseous horns in the males, and often the females, of most 

 species. 



Food invariably vegetable. 

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