Burchell's Zeb 



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of the ass or the mule, but narrower than those of a horse. Zebras never 

 wander more than a few miles away from water, and the presence of 

 these animals is a sure indication that one is not far distant from a stream 

 or pool. 



The Boers of South Africa have but one name for the quagga and all 

 the varieties of Burchell's zebra. They call them all quaggas. This 

 name is, however, not pronounced in the English way, « kwagger," but 

 kwa-ha, in imitation, doubtless, of the cry emitted by the animal, which 



ell's Zebra {Egum burchelli) in the Woburn Collection. From a photograph 

 by the Duchess of Bedford. 



sounds like the syllables kwa-ha-ha, kwa-ha-ha quickly repeated. This 

 Dutch name, which was originally given to the now extinct quagga first 

 met with on the plains of the Cape Colony, but is now applied and is 

 equally applicable to all the various sub-species of Burchell's zebras met 

 with in South Africa, is interesting as showing that the cry of the two 

 species was exactly similar. This helps to prove, I think, that the original 

 quagga was nothing more than a sub-species of Burchell's zebra. 



