54 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
many cases first represented by spots or interrupted zigzag wavy 
lines. Between the stifle or third flank stripe and the point of 
the hock there are a number of dark bands (between some of 
which are shadow stripes), while below the hock there are first 
several distinct transverse bars, and then a number of less dis- 
tinct oblique lines, right down to the hoof. Similar bars and 
lines occur on the fore-limb. These leg bars were at birth more 
distinct than in the Zebra sire. Continuous with the mane is a 
well-defined dorsal band (with a narrow yellow band at each side) 
which extends some distance into the tail. The tail in the 
hybrid had, at birth, long hairs right up to the root, but, not- 
withstanding this, there were three distinct bars visible at each 
side; similar tail bars J have once seen in a Horse. 
Though the ears look long in some of the photographs, they 
are now relatively very little longer (though rounder at the apex) 
than in the majority of Horses. The nostrils, in their shape, 
position, &c., are Zebra-like, and the eyes and eyebrows may be 
said to be intermediate; but the eyelashes are long and curved, 
and quite unlike the short almost straight eyelashes of Zebras 
and Horses. The feet of Romulus suggest the Zebra more than 
the Horse. ‘'I'hey seem to be made of excellent stuff, and to 
stand a good deal of wear. In his movements, the hybrid takes 
more after his sire than his dam. A few minutes after birth he 
was rushing about his box, impatient apparently to join the 
parental troop. What has struck me from the first has been his 
alertness and the expedition with which he eseapes from suspicious 
or unfamiliar objects. When quite young, if caught napping in 
the paddock, the facility with which he, as it were, rolled on to 
his feet and darted off was wonderful. The principal enemy of 
the Zebra seems to be the Lion. To escape from the Lion, 
great and sustained speed is not so requisite as a decided and 
rapid bound when the Lion makes his spring, or when he is 
accidentally met with in the veld. This rapidity of getting out 
of the way has been strongly inherited by all the hybrids. 
Zebras, as far as my experience goes, are difficult to handle, not 
so much because they are vicious or intractable, as because they 
are afraid. At any moment they may be seized by panic,—when 
they imagine there is a Lion in the path,—and, regardless of 
consequences, rush, it may be, against a wall or a hedge, or into 
