THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
Cape of Good Hope, is the smallest of all (twelve to twelve and 
a half hands high) and everywhere striped with black on a white 
ground, the black stripes of moderate width, yet wider than the 
white spaces. This species was never seen far from the moun- 
tains. On the plains, as well as among the hills of all the more 
open parts of Africa from Orange River to Lake Rudolph, roamed 
BURCHELL'S (OR SOUTHERN) ZEBRA. 
Burchell’s or the plains variety of this zebra, the one now com- 
monly seen in menageries. It presents many local variations, 
but in all the coat is creamy or golden yellow, and the black 
stripes are far broader than in the mountain zebra, which it also 
exceeds in size; its ears are smaller and its mane fuller. This 
kind, which represents the southern type, is partial to sparsely 
forested country, but is, or was, to be found everywhere from 
the seacoast to the summits of the rocky interior plateaus.” 
Closely related to these was a third animal, extinct since about 
1875, which a century ago wandered in vast herds on the open 
treeless veldt south of the Vaal River and west of the arid 
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