PLATE XXIV, 
1. EQUUS MONTANUS.—THE ZEBRA OF MODERN NATURALISTS, o 
Wilde Paard (wild horse) of the Cape Colonists. Daow of the Hottentots. 
Generic CHaracTeR.— About four feet high at the withers. and eight feet two inches in extreme length. Shape light 
and symmetrical. Legs clean, wiry, and slender. Feet small, terminating in a compact solid castled hoof. Head light 
and bony. Ears and tail asinine —not equine as in the Quagga and Burchell’s Zebra—the latter sixteen inches in length, 
transversely banded at the root, and tufted with black hair at the extremity. Ground colour of the coat pure white. The 
whole of the head, neck, legs, and body, the lower portion of the belly excepted, striped with glossy jet-black bands, some 
narrower, some wider, and placed closer together or further apart, according to the position they occupy; the upper portions 
connected with the dorsal line, and forming a plait over the crupper. Those on the neck continued through the bushy upright 
mane, which is thus alternately checked black and white. Legs gartered by narrow ribbons, which ‘extend both within and 
without, down to the coronets. A bare spot inside of each arm, a little above the knee. Two | transverse bay bands De enna Ne 
the ears. Lively brown stripes on the face, terminating in a bay patch above the nose, which is black. ne ; 
Female similar, with two inguinal mamme. Gregarious in small troops. Found within and beyond the Cape Colony, 
but in mountainous regions only. 
2. OREOTRAGUS SALTATRIX.—THE KLIPSPRINGER. 
Klipspringer of the Dutch Colonists. Kainsi of the Hottentots. 
Generic CHARACTER. — Adult male, about twenty-two inches high at the shoulder, and th irty-six in extreme length. 
Tail three inches long, almost rudimental, and only visible by the brush of hair which clothes Form robust and square. 
Head short and broad; compressed at the sides; suddenly contracting immediately in front of the orbits, and terminating in a 
pointed black muzzle. ars large, open, and rounded; margined with black, and filled with long white hair. Eyes of the 
darkest hazel; full, lively, ond surrounded by a black edging, as if collyrium had been applied. Arch of the orbits unusually 
prominent. Horns about four inches long; round, distant, vertical, and parallel, but slightly inclined forwards; obscurely 
wrinkled at the base, and annulated in the middle. Legs robust and caprine; long and broad in the arm, with short shanks 
or canon bones. Pasterns extremely high and rigid, preserving the same line as the canons. Hoofs upright and cylindrical ; 
each subdivided into two segments, so jagged at their edges as to impart the power of adhering to the steep side of the 
the knees. Fur of the upper 
smoothest rock —no portion of the toe touching the ground excepting the tip. Callosities on. 
parts extremely thick, long, and quill-like; hard, brittle, spirally twisted, and standing off the skin yertically, so as to form a 
natural pad; at base ashy, brown in the centre, and yellow at the ends; forming, . in their combina an agreeable olive- 
green. Under portions of the body sandy, tinged with ochre. Below the knees and hocks buff. Suborbital sinus circular and 
conspicuous. Muzzle naked. 
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Female hornless; in other respects similar to the male. Mamme two. Common in and out of the 
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