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compact, and well coupled, and the legs are short, clean, and although 

 slender, wonderfully strong and symmetrical. The hoofs are small neat 

 astmne in type, and hard as flints. The ears and tail are also distinctly 

 more asinine than equine. 



Ever since it has been known to Europeans-that is, since the landing 



F 1G . i2.-Mountain Zebra (E v ,u, zcir,,). Drau-n fro, 

 in the- Zoological Gardens. 



of the Dutch settlers at the Cape in .652 -the true zebra has been 

 remarkable chiefly as a mountain dweller. It is true that from a perusal 

 of old works of travel it appears that this animal was in former times— 

 before it became so persecuted— occasionally seen in the valleys between 

 and near mountain ranges ; but it is, and has apparently always been, a 

 lover of mountain country, making its home usually among the wildest and 

 most remote of the steep and rocky sierras of South Africa. Its range 



