. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. THICK-SKINNKD QUADRUPEDS. 173 great swiftness from one place to another in search of food and water. It is wary and timid, and its great fleetness, in which, according to the testimony of numerous travellers, it surpasses all other quadrupeds, secures it from heasts of prey, and enables it easily to outstrip the horses and dogs of the hunter. The Tartars, who are fond of its flesh, sometimes kill it by ambush and strat
. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. THICK-SKINNKD QUADRUPEDS. 173 great swiftness from one place to another in search of food and water. It is wary and timid, and its great fleetness, in which, according to the testimony of numerous travellers, it surpasses all other quadrupeds, secures it from heasts of prey, and enables it easily to outstrip the horses and dogs of the hunter. The Tartars, who are fond of its flesh, sometimes kill it by ambush and stratagem, and sometimes secure it by surrounding it with a circle of hunters, after the Asiatic fashion. The form of the Dzigguctai is strikingly characteristic of an animal made for swift running, having the various points of figure which distinguish the racing or blooded horse, a figure which is produced in the horse by the efforts of art and by careful breeding, but which belongs to the Dzigguctai by nature. The Zebra, a native of Southern Africa, is, perhaps, the handsomest and most elegantly clothed of all quadrupeds. He has. the shape and graces of the horse, the swiftness of the stag, and a striped robe of black and white alternately disposed with so 15*. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Philadelphia : Crawford & Co.
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