The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . uarters, and legs barred to the hoofs, Zool. Garten, xxxv. Hefte 2 and 3; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 690 (whereMr Sclater holds that Matschies species are only four different climaticforms). - Hamilton Smith, The Horse, p. 321. The name zebra is the Portugueseadaptation of a native name. According to Ludolphus it is the negro formof the Abyssinian zeurti of Lobo and the Galla zeora or zecora. •^ Ewart, Penycuik Experiments, p. 70. 62 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. and the true Burchell zebra, with perfectly white legs andscarcely a vestige of tran
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . uarters, and legs barred to the hoofs, Zool. Garten, xxxv. Hefte 2 and 3; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 690 (whereMr Sclater holds that Matschies species are only four different climaticforms). - Hamilton Smith, The Horse, p. 321. The name zebra is the Portugueseadaptation of a native name. According to Ludolphus it is the negro formof the Abyssinian zeurti of Lobo and the Galla zeora or zecora. •^ Ewart, Penycuik Experiments, p. 70. 62 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. and the true Burchell zebra, with perfectly white legs andscarcely a vestige of transverse stripes across either croup orloins (Fig. 37), whilst from the true Burchell zebra it is buta step to the better marked specimens of the now lost, if notextinct, quagga (Fig. 38): let us therefore pass on for themoment to the Mountain Zebra, and then return to theBurchell group. (12) The Mountain or Common Zebra (Equus zebra)was formerly extremely common in the mountainous parts ofCape Colony and Natal, but it has now become nearly extinct. Fig. 29. Mountain Zebra. in that area, though up to the beginning of the late war therewas a fine herd near Cradock\ It was commonly called the wild pard by the Dutch of Cape Colony. A local race ofthis species is still to be found in Angola^ (E. zebra penricei,Thomas), whilst another race or sub-species (E. z. hartmanni, 1 From private information which I have received since the conclusion of thewar, I learn that the Cradock zebras, or at least some of them, still survive. 2 Mr Pocock holds that E. zebra penricei and E. z. hartmanni are very dis-tinct from the typical E. zebra, the ground colour being brownish and the blackstripes only about as wide as the light spaces, whilst E. z. penricei and E. are probably distinguishable from each other. n] THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 63 Matschie) still survives in considerable numbers in GermanWest Africa. The Mountain Zebra more nearly resembles theass than Burchells zebra, for its hoo
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