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and Wild Animals of Southern Africa." " The adult 

 male stands four feet six inches high at the withers, 

 and measures eight feet six inches in extreme length. 

 Form compact. Barrel round. Limbs robust, 

 clean and sinewy. Head light and bony, of a bay 

 colour, covered on the forehead and temples with 

 longitudinal, and on the cheeks with narrow trans- 

 versal stripes, forming linear triangular figures 

 between the eyes and mouth. Muzzle black. Ears 

 and tail strictly equine ; the latter white and flowing 

 below the hocks. Crest very high, arched, and 

 surmounted by a full standing mane, which appears 

 as though it had been hogged, and is banded 

 alternately brown and white. Colour of the neck 

 and upper parts of the body dark rufous brown, 

 becoming gradually more fulvous, and fading off to 

 white behind and underneath. The upper portions 

 banded and brindled with dark brown stripes, 

 stronger, broader, and more regular on the neck, 

 but gradually waxing fainter, until lost behind the 

 shoulders in spots and blotches. Dorsal line dark 

 and broad, widening over the crupper. Legs white, 

 with bare spots inside above the knees. Female 

 precisely similar." 



Sir W. Jardine describes the quagga as equal 

 or superior in size to the Burchell's zebra, and as 

 " still more robust in structure, with more girth, 

 wider across the hips, more like a true horse ; the 

 hoofs considerably broader than in the true zebra, 

 and the neck full; the ears rather small." The 

 same writer speaks of it as best calculated for 

 domestication of the zebra group, both as regards 

 strength and docility. He instances the facts, that 

 the late Mr. Sheriff Parkins used to drive a pair 



