2. AsiNus. 275 



Hippotigris Isabellinus (the Isabella Quagga), H. Smith, Egtiidce, 



p. 333, t. 25. 

 Aae IsabeUe, Ze Vaittant. 

 Lesson places the Quagga with the true Horses, because the hair 

 extends nearer to the base of the tail, overlooHng the warts and 

 other natural characters (Nov. Tab. E. A. p. 166, 1842). 

 The Quagga is found in herds near the Cape Colony. 

 Le Vaillant, as Col. Smith observes, only saw, and did not pos- 

 sess, the Ane Isahelle. The specimen in the British Museum de- 

 scribed and figured by Col. H. Smith was certainly only a young 

 Quagga in a very imperfect condition, having lost nearly the whole 

 of its fur before it was stuffed. It was presented by Dr. Burchell 

 as the skin of a Quagga. 



6. Asinus BurcheUii. (The Peetsi or Peeohi.) B.M. 



Pale- brown, underside of body whitish ; head, body, and upper 

 part of leg black-streaked ; tail, inside and lower paxt of leg white. 

 Hoof rather broad, only slightly concave beneath. Skull — sub- 

 orbital foramen as in E. Jiemionus. 



Equus zebra, Burchell, Travels, i. p. 139, vig. at p. 252. 



Asinus BurchelE, Gray, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 247, t. 9. f. 1 (animal), f. 2 



(hoof), 1824; List Mamm. B. M. p. 183; Cat. Ungulata B. M. 



p. 276. 

 Equus zebroides, Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 346; Nw. Tab. R. A. 



p. 166, 1842. 

 Equus BurcheUii, Bennett, List Animals 2!ool. Oard. 1830, p. 40. 



n. 62 ; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 432. 

 Equus zebra (male), F. Cuvier, Mus. M4nag. t. 

 Equus montanus (the Dauw), F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. t. (female 



and foal) (not BurcheU) ; Lesson, Mammifires, i. p. 248. 

 Hippotigris BurcheUii (the Dauw), H. Smith, Eqmdce, p. 329, t. 23 



(? &iun.). 

 Burchell s Zebra, Harris, W. A. Africa, t. 5 ; Knight, Mus. Anim. 



Nat. i. 481. 

 Striped or Bonte Quagga of the Cape Colonists, Harris, I. c. p. 7. 

 Peet-sey of the Matamdi and Bechuanas. 

 Dauw, F. Quvier, Mamm. Lithog. t. 



Hab. South Africa, plains. 



Var. Leg more or less banded. 

 Equus Chapmani, Layard, P. Z. S, 1865, t. 22. 



Hah. South Africa (Baines). 



The skull of a female from South Africa is in the British 

 Museum. 



Pound in herds in every district north of the Orange Eiver. It 

 admits of being tamed to a certain extent with considerable faciUty; 

 and occasionally a half-domesticated specimen is exposed for sale in 

 Cape Town with a rider on its back : even in the most tractable 

 state to which it has yet been reduced, it is regarded as wicked, 

 treacherous, obstinate, and fickle. — H. Smith. 



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