. The popular natural history . Zoology. THE QUAGGA. This animal is so wonderfully swift that it cannot be overtaken even by a fleet Arabian horse, and if it can get upon hilly or rocky ground, it bids defiance to all wingless enemies. Not even the greyhound can follow it with any hope of success when it once leaves level ground. This great speed renders it a favourite object of chase with the natives of the country which it inhabits; and whether in Persia or India, it is held to be the noblest of game. Sometimesthe falcon is trained to aid in the chase of the Wild Ass, but the usual method of
. The popular natural history . Zoology. THE QUAGGA. This animal is so wonderfully swift that it cannot be overtaken even by a fleet Arabian horse, and if it can get upon hilly or rocky ground, it bids defiance to all wingless enemies. Not even the greyhound can follow it with any hope of success when it once leaves level ground. This great speed renders it a favourite object of chase with the natives of the country which it inhabits; and whether in Persia or India, it is held to be the noblest of game. Sometimesthe falcon is trained to aid in the chase of the Wild Ass, but the usual method of securing this animal is to drive it towards rocky ground, and to kill it with a rifle bullet as it stands in fancied security upon some lofty crag. It hves in troops, descend- ing to the plains during the winter months, and return- ing to the cooler hills as soon as the summer begins to be unpleasantly warm. It is very common in Mesopotamia, and is always a most shy and wary, as well as swift animal. Each troop is under the command of a leader, who sways his subjects with unlimited all needful arrangements for. QUAGGA.—{Asinus Quagga. authority, and takes upon himself to make their welfare. The colour of this animal is pale reddish brown in the summer, fading into a grey-brown in the winter, and marked with a black stripe along the spine, becoming wider upon the middle of the back. Another species of Wild Ass is the Kiang, or Wild Ass of Thibet, sometimes, but erroneously, called the Wild Horse of Thibet, be- cause its noise resembles the neighing of that animal rather than the braying of the Ass. Africa produces some most beautiful examples of the Wild Asses, equal- ling the Asiatic species in speed and beauty of form, and far surpassing them in richness of colour and boldness of marking. The Quagga looks at first sight like a cross between the common wild ass and the zebra, as it only partially possesses the characteristic zebra stripes, and is decorated merely upon the hi
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