CHARACTERISTICS OF THE QUAGGA 
Kalahari country. This was the quagga. It was darker than the 
others, —‘‘a dark rufous brown on the neck and upper parts of 
‘the body, becoming lighter on the sides, and fading 
off to whitish beneath and behind; instead of being 
striped, too, over the whole body, it was only strongly banded 
on the head and neck, the dark brown stripes becoming fainter 
on the shoulders and dying away in spots and blotches.” Its 
name was borrowed from the Hottentots, and when properly 
pronounced, sounds closely imitative of its ‘“‘barking neigh,” 
qua-ha; and Burchell’s ze-.. 3 Ge rage! 
bras are to-day called “qua: ‘ 
has” by the colonists, — a, 
fact which leads to confusion 
in some books. The plain: 
coloration toward which it 
was tending seems respon- 
sive to the influences of the 
dry open country in which 
it lived, — influences also af- 
fecting the Burchell’s zebras: 
of the south to make them 
far paler than those of the 
rougher and more wooded region northward. The French 
paleontologist Gaudry places the quagga nearest of all living 
Equide to the Hipparion, —a graceful equine which in Plio- 
cene times wandered in great herds over the plains of Thes- 
saly, and whose skeletons are entombed by thousands in the 
marvelous bone deposits at Pikermi near Athens, Greece. 
The northern type of zebra (Grevy’s) is also ‘extravagantly 
striped,” but after a very different pattern, for the deep-black 
stripes are much narrower and more numerous, the white being 
mere streaks; it is also the largest of its race, fourteen to 
fifteen hands high, and the bigness of its head and hairy ears 
is noticeable. Its home is the hilly, ravine-cut plateaus of 
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Quagga. 
GREVY'S (OR NORTHERN) ZEBRA, 
