346 MAMMALIA. BELLILE. Horfe. 



but is excefiively fhy, and runs into the woods on the approach of mankind. It is exceedingly fwift, 

 vicious, and untameable ; is about the fize of a Mule, and is fhaped much like the Afs, with fhorter 

 and lefs flouching ears. The male and female are marked exactly in the fame manner, as defcribcd 

 in the character. 



7 68 j8. Hybrid Zebra.— E. Zebra hybridus. 



Mr Pennant informs us, that by painting a common Jack-afs to refemble the Zebra, a female Ze- 

 bra admitted its embraces, and produced a hybrid animal, fome years ago at London ; but gives no 

 account of its appearance. 



769 5. Quacha. — 6. Equus £>uagga. 4. 



Has folid hoofs ; is of a bright bay colour on the upper parts of the body, and ftriped 

 with perpendicular brown lines ; the flanks are fpotted, and the rump plain; the 

 belly, thighs, and legs, are white. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 5. 



Opuagha. Marlon, trav. in Phil. Tranf..lxvi. 297. Journ. hift. 40. — Quacha. Voy. de M. Hop. 

 40. — Female Zebra. Edw. av. t. 223. 



Inhabits the fouth of Africa. — This animal is thicker, and more ftrongby made, than the Zebra, 

 and is more tractable, having fometimes been broken to the draught ; it likewife keeps always in fe- 

 parate herds, and is diftinguifhed from, the -former fpecies by the Hottentots. 



77° 6. Chilefe Horfe.— 1. Equus bifulcus. 6. 



Has cloven hoofs. Molin. hiii. nat. Chil. 284. 



Inhabits South America. — This obfcure quadruped, which is only mentioned by Molina, frequents 

 -the precipitous and rocky mountains of the Andes or Cordellieras ; in fize, number and arrangement 

 of teeth, and in general appearance, it refembles the Horfe, for which reafon it is placed by Dr Gme- 

 lin in this genus, though its cloven hoofs are fimilar to thofe of the animals belonging to the former 

 order: It is a very vicious, wild, and exceedingly fwift animal, having the fize, hair, colour, nofe, 

 eyes, neck, back, tail, legs, and genitals, refembling the Afs, with which it likewife agrees in its in- 

 ternal ftructure, but wants the dufky crofs on the flioulders, and refembles the Horfe in the figure 

 .of its ears, and the neighing found of its voice. — Perhaps this animal may only be a wild Horfe, de- 

 generated through the inclemency of the mountainous diftrict which it inhabits, and the circumftance 

 of its having cloven hoofs may be exaggerated, or only a miftake. — T. 



XLH. HIPPOPOTAMUS.— 41. HIPPOPOTAMUS. 34. 



Has four fore teeth in each jaw; thofe above are placed in 

 pairs at fome diftance from each other ; thofe below are 

 prominent, the two intermediate teeth being confiderably 

 longer than the other two. In each fide of each jaw is one 

 tufk; thofe of the under jaw are very long, much crooked, 



and 



