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THE ZEBRA. 
tinge, adorned on every part with stripes of 
a black or blackish brown colour, laid on with 
such regularity as to give the arumal the ap- 
pearance of being decorated with dark ribands. 
These stripes run in a transverse direction on 
the body and limbs, and longitudinally down 
the face. The tail, of moderate length, round, 
and rather slender, is also marked with black- 
ish bars, and terminated by a pretty thick 
tuft of a blackish or brown colour. 
This animal is not found in any quarter 
of the globe besides Africa, and only in the 
southern portion of that continent, from Abys- 
sinia to the Cape of Good Hope, and from 
Mozambique to Congo. It appears that there 
are two species of the zebra, one of which, 
called dauw by the Hottentots, is rarely seen 
but among the mountains, while the other 
frequents the plains. The latter is said to 
be the more numerous of the two, and to be 
distinguished by the want of black bands upon 
