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of the herd; and it was noticed that a large antelope kept watch and gave the alarm 
on our appearance. They are rarely found outside the forest, preferring it to the 
open plain, which is generally bare of grass; or they frequent a country with 
clumps of dense brushwood, or with out-crops of granite, around which they get 
abundant food; and they were never seen far from running water and hills. Their 
breeding-season was determined by goats following their mothers in the month of 
January, and by the shrill calls we heard, which came, I presume, from the goats. 
The first time I heard their call, I mistook it for that of a bird, and could scarcely 
be persuaded till I heard the decided donkey-notes following the shriller sounds. 
They showed much sympathy when a comrade was wounded, lingering with the 
gravy’s zebra. (From Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc ., 1882.) 
Quagga. 
wounded at the risk of their lives; they mingled with our laden donkeys one day 
on the marsh.” These zebras are found at elevations varying from two hundred up 
to two or three thousand feet above the sea. 
The quagga or couagga (E. quagga ), so far as colour is con¬ 
cerned, forms a connecting link between the zebras and the asses; 
but in its short ears, and the extent to which the tail is haired, approximates to 
the horse. In height it stands about the same as the true zebra; in colour the 
upper parts are of a light reddish brown, with the head, neck, and front half of 
the body marked with irregular chocolate-brown stripes, gradually becoming 
fainter, until they are quite lost on the hind-quarters. There is a dark stripe 
running down the back on to the upper part of the tail; but the rest of the 
tail, together with the under-parts, the inner sides of the thighs, and the legs, 
are white. 
