The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . d, 1899), whilst the extracts are given at length byMr H. Scherren (Field, 4 March, 1905). 2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1994, p. 320 (Swayne); ibid. 1893, p. 473 (Paget). * Fig. 28 is from a photograph kindly given me by Mr Carl Hagenbeck. ?* Flower and Lydekker, op. cit., p. 387; Tegetmeier, op. cit., pp. 43-5;R. I. Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. xx. (1897), pp. 48 sqq. The Somali race(berberevsis, Pocock) of E. grevyi has ground colour pale brown or ochre withchocolate stripes. Both races were known to Ludolphus (op. cit.), and a speci-men with b
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . d, 1899), whilst the extracts are given at length byMr H. Scherren (Field, 4 March, 1905). 2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1994, p. 320 (Swayne); ibid. 1893, p. 473 (Paget). * Fig. 28 is from a photograph kindly given me by Mr Carl Hagenbeck. ?* Flower and Lydekker, op. cit., p. 387; Tegetmeier, op. cit., pp. 43-5;R. I. Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. xx. (1897), pp. 48 sqq. The Somali race(berberevsis, Pocock) of E. grevyi has ground colour pale brown or ochre withchocolate stripes. Both races were known to Ludolphus (op. cit.), and a speci-men with brown stripes had reached Constantinople. ^ Ewart, Penycuik Experivients, p. 76. ] THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 59 Although in other respects it stands closer to the ass thanto the horse, in having the hoofs rounded in front it resemblesthe horse, but in having long heels and a large frog it agreeswith the African asses, whilst the chestnuts are smalP. Itthus differs essentially from the following group. The Burchell Zebra (Equus bnrchelli). As we advance. Fk;. 28. The Somali Zebra. southwards this zebra or group of zebras is first met with inEquatorial Africa. It is named after the traveller Burchell,who was the first in modern times at least to call attention toit, having met it near the Orange River in southern Bechuana-land. Yet from Pigafettas- description of the first zebra known ^ Pocock, loc. cit.; Hayes, Points of the Horse, p. 6(57, fig. 628 (for sole of foot). - A Report of the Kingdome of Congo a Region of Africa, Drawn out of thewritings and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta,Translated out of Itahan by Abraham Hartwell (London, 1597), p. 73. Theoriginal was published at Rome by Bartolomeo Graffi, 1-591. A Dutch trans- 60 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. to modern Europe, that found by the Portuguese after theyhad established themselves on the coast of Congo and Angola,that animal seems to have been one of the varieties of E. bur-chelli, and not the Mo
Size: 1644px × 1519px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisher, booksubjecthorses
