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POrULAK OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



GRANT'S ZEBRA. 



The Prjevalsky Horses, (Equus prjevalskii).—Oi all the 

 wild eqiiines which either now or hereafter may be seen in 

 the Zoolosical Park, the strange little wild horses from 

 western Mongolia are, and probably will remain, the most 

 interesting, from a zoological point of view. Broadly speak- 

 ing, they are the connecting link between the many-striped 

 zebras, the little-striped qnaggas and the wild asses on one 

 side, and the domestic, nnstriped horse on the other. These 

 wild horses possess a narrow, dark dorsal stripe, which, in the 

 winter pelage is scarcely visible, but in summer is plainly 

 evident. A perfect specimen has an erect mane, no long 

 forelock and no "chestnuts" on its legs. On the upper 

 half of its tail the hair is short, and mule-like, but on the 

 lower, or terminal half, it is long and horse-like. The win- 

 ter coat of this animal is very long and shaggj^ 



The parents of these horses were captured in 1900, by an 

 expedition sent out by Carl Hagenbeck, in Sungaria, west- 

 ern Mongolia, between the Altai and Thian-Shan Mountains. 

 The expedition co.st about $25,000, and of the 52 colts cap- 

 tured by the wild Khirgiz horsemen employed in Ihe chase, 

 only 23 reached Hamburg alive. The specimens exliibite(l 



