ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 BULLETIN 



Published by the New York Zoological Society 



Vol. XVI 



JANUARY, 1913 



Number 55 



THE WILD EQUIXES OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



By Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the only yesterday as it were, absolutely unknown 



domestic horse has been the familiar to science. That the finest of all zebra species, 



servant of man ever since the earliest the Grevy, should have thus remained wholly 



historic times, several of the most interesting unknown until near the end of the nineteenth 



forms of the wild equidae have remained, until century, seems almost incredible ; and it may 



Fig. 1. HERD OF l'RZEWAI.SKV WILD HORSES IN THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



The original stallion and mare to the left The small colt, born June 8, 19] .'. is of uniform buff color with 

 a woolly coat. . Photographed June 20, 1912. 



