2 HORSE. 
docil, fpirited yet obedient adapted to all purpofes, 
the draught, the chace, the race : its voice, neigh¬ 
ing * its arms, hoofs and teeth; its tail of the ut- 
moft ufe in driving off infeds in hot weather. Sub- 
jed to various difeafes, many from our abufe, more 
from our too great care of it. Its exuvia ufeful; 
the fkin for collars and traces * 3 the hair of the mane 
for wigs ; of the tail, for the bottoms of chairs, and 
floor-cloths: Tartars feed on its flefh, and drink 
the milk of mares. 
2. Zebra. Pulcher onager. Martial Epig. 
xiii. ioi. OppianCyneg.m. 183. 
Zebra. Nuremberg . 168. 
Zecora. Ludolpb. JEthiop. 56. 
Zebra. Ratifyn. quad . 04. Klein 
quad . 5, 
Le Zebre on L’ane raye. Rrijfon 
quad. 70. De Buff on, xii. i„ 
tab , I. II. 
Equus Zebra. Ea. fafciis fufcis 
verficolor. Lin. fyfi. 101* 
Ediv. 222. 
Wild Afs. Kolben Cape good 
Hope s ii. 112. 
H. with a fhort ered mane: tail furnifhed with long 
hairs at the end: whole body beautifully ftriped 
from the back to the belly, with lines of brown, 
on a very pale buff ground. The molt elegant of 
quadrupeds. 
Inhabits Africa , from Congo to the Cape of Good 
Hope , thence to AEthiopia . Gregarious, ufelefs, un- 
tameable, vitious: vaftly fwift : moft probably 
known to the Romans , being of the fame country 
with the Giraffa , which had been early introduced 
into their fpeEIacula. Martial feems to hint at it by 
his pulcher onager \ Oppian particularly defcribes the 
ftripes diverging from the black lift on the back. 
Almus. 
