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HYBRID EQJJIB^. 



utilised would no doubt produce most valuable h-ybrid 

 offspring. The hybrids of the Burchell zebra ^rith the 

 horse have already been mentioned : it also breeds freely 

 with the common ass. In the Gardens of the Zoological 

 Society at Melbourne there are some Burchell's zebras that 

 were bred in Paris, for this most useful animal breeds treely 

 in crmfinement. On September 6th. 1892. an experiment 



BUECHELL S ZEBEA AJTD HTBEID FOAL. 



(From a photograph. 



was made by crossing the zebra with a white so-called 

 Siamese ass, which was obviously a variety of the domesti- 

 cated Equus asinus. The foal was born on October 25th, 

 1893, showing that the period of gestation in Burchell's 

 zebra resembles that of the ass in being considerably over 

 twelve months. The young one is descril^ed as a strono-, 



