. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. e legs are sometimes marked withtransversal brown lines. The Kirghiz, Tartars, and Persians huntthis animal and eat his flesh. Taken young,he is easily and frec|uently tamed. They aretaken alive in ditches lined with grass and care-fully covered, into which horsemen drive them. n. The shape the zebra resembles the wild ass,except that his rounded hind (.|uartcrs seem toindicate a relationship with the horse. Thefundamental color of his coat is white, thehead is almost wholly while, also the lining ofthe ears, but the
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. e legs are sometimes marked withtransversal brown lines. The Kirghiz, Tartars, and Persians huntthis animal and eat his flesh. Taken young,he is easily and frec|uently tamed. They aretaken alive in ditches lined with grass and care-fully covered, into which horsemen drive them. n. The shape the zebra resembles the wild ass,except that his rounded hind (.|uartcrs seem toindicate a relationship with the horse. Thefundamental color of his coat is white, thehead is almost wholly while, also the lining ofthe ears, but the nose is a fine brown, and thetip of the tail black. Elsewhere the body ofthis beautiful animal is striped with dark lives in herds in the mountainous and sandyregions of South Africa and southern is never found above 10° north latitude. i6o OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS Though he cannot deny his asinine nature,thanks to his obstinacy, tenacity, and occasionalmalignity, kind treatment has succeeded morethan once in subduing him, and also in training. Orphan Bo\, Grand Champion J^ck,Worlds Fair him both for riding and for harness. But thiswild and self-willed mountaineer will alwaysshow temper if teased, a thing he cannot pos-sibly endure. The quagga is another species of striped ass,which bears still more resemblance to the fundamental color is yellowish brown stripedwith fewer bands than the zebra, and thesedisappear on the back and on the croup. Thestomach and inside of the legs are chiefly animals formerly lived in herds, in com-pany with ostriches, who were quicker thanthey in finding food and perceiving the present time the quagga may be saidto have disappeared, — to have succumbed inthe struggle for existence against the growingpopulation of South Africa and the mania ofthe Englishman for hunting big game. The Hottentots gave him the name ofquagga on account of his cry (quag-ga, quag-ga),which differs as much from the neighi
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