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employed to catch it, or it is shot by lying in ambush behind 
some eminence near the salt meadows, which it loves to frequent. 
In 1838, M. Dussumier, a ship-owner of Bordeaux, procured 
for the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, three adults, a male and two 
j females. These animals had never figured in this menagerie before, 
and since that time no other individual of the breed has been 
brought there ; hut the three specimens which they possessed 
i were not long before they bore young. Not only did they mul- 
tiply, but were crossed both with male and female Asses. 
When the question arose as to utilising this animal, it was for a 
moment feared that it would be impossible either to break or 
train it ; at the present day, however, we know differently ; for 
one from the Jardin des Plantes in a few months’ handling became 
sufficiently docile to be driven from Paris to Versailles. Accord- 
ing to M. Richard (du Cantal), they present no more difficulty 
i in breaking than Horses which are reared in our meadows, and 
I permitted to run at large to the age of four or five years. Two 
i individuals from the menagerie of the Museum, which were 
entrusted to the care of M. de Pontalba, were ridden without 
difficulty after a very short tutelage. 
Zebra (. Equus Zebra, Linn.). — The Zebra is larger than the 
Wild Ass, sometimes attaining the size of a mature Arab Horse. 
The richness of its coat, which almost every one has had an 
opportunity of admiring at the J ardin des Plantes in Paris, and 
the Zoological Gardens in London, both of which institutions 
possess living specimens, would suffice to distinguish this creature 
from every other species of the same genus. The ground colour 
is white tinged with yellow, marked with stripes of black and of 
blackish brown. 
This elegant animal is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and 
probably the whole of southern, and a part of eastern, Africa. 
Travellers state that they have met with it in Congo, Guinea, 
and Abyssinia. It delights in mountainous countries, and, 
although it is less rapid than the Wild Ass, its paces are so 
good that the best Horses are alone able to overtake it. 
The Zebra lives in droves, but is very shy in its nature ; it is 
endowed with powers of sight that enable it to perceive from 
great distances the approach of hunters. It is, consequently, very 
difficult to capture a mature living specimen. 
