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stripe, to which the lower ends of the transverse side 

 stripes are usually united ; but the dorsal stripe (also 

 strongly marked) is completely isolated in its posterior 

 half, and the uppermost of the broad haunch stripes runs 

 nearly parallel to it. A much larger proportion of the ear 

 is white than in the other species. In the middle of the 

 wide intervals of the broad black stripes of the flanks 

 and haunches fainter stripes are generally to be seen. 



This animal is generally spoken of as the 4 quagga ' 

 by colonists and hunters, but it must not be confounded 

 with the species to be described under that name pre- 

 sently. Its flesh is greatly relished by the natives as 

 food, and its hide is very valuable as leather. By far 

 the greater proportion of zebras exhibited in European 

 zoological gardens and menageries at the present time 

 belong to this species, and it is frequently bred in 

 confinement, and the attempts made to break it in, and 

 train it for riding and driving, have been attended with 

 partial success. 



In 1882 a living zebra was sent from Shoa, a 

 country lying to the south of Abyssinia, to the then 

 President of the French Kepublic, who deposited it in 

 the Jardin des Plantes, and, being obviously different 

 from any that had hitherto been seen in Europe, it was 

 named by M. Milne-Edwards Equus grevyi, in compli- 

 ment to his political chief. On a white ground-colour, 

 it is very finely marked all over with numerous delicate, 



