Zoological Society bulletin . betweenthat of the horse and the ass, and usually con-sists of three short, barking whinnies in quicksuccession. The note is uttered with greatgusto, and the position assumed during the callis more like that of a horse than of the ass,which while braying stands quietly with thehead up and the ears pricked forward. Thedisposition of the Mountain Zebra is generallyvicious, whereas the Grant zebra is much moredocile and capable of domestication. It is interesting to note that although thezebras were well known to the Romans, thistrue or Mountain Zebra was the first o
Zoological Society bulletin . betweenthat of the horse and the ass, and usually con-sists of three short, barking whinnies in quicksuccession. The note is uttered with greatgusto, and the position assumed during the callis more like that of a horse than of the ass,which while braying stands quietly with thehead up and the ears pricked forward. Thedisposition of the Mountain Zebra is generallyvicious, whereas the Grant zebra is much moredocile and capable of domestication. It is interesting to note that although thezebras were well known to the Romans, thistrue or Mountain Zebra was the first of thisgroup to be described by Linnaeus, as Equuszebra, from the figure in Edwards Glean-ings of Natural History. The Grevy zebra onthe other hand, occupying the heart of Abys-sinia, was the last of this great group to be dis-covered, not having been made known to scienceuntil 1882, when a specimen was presented toPresident Grew of the French Republic, inwhose honor the new species was named. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 949. V THK MASSASAUGA, OR DWARF RATTLESNAKE THE MASSASAUGA IN NEW YORK STATE By Edward T. Whiffen. THE Massasauga, a species of Dwarf Rat-tlesnake, is still to be found in New YorkState, in and around Cicero Swamp,which, with some interruptions, stretches acrossthe northern parts of Onondaga and MadisonCounties, between Oneida and Onondaga main swamp is said to be fourteen mileslong, and seven miles wide in its greatest ex-tent. It consists of the swamp proper, in whichare numerous islands, or higher areas of to the dry land is the shore, a wet,marshy strip, from seventy-five to one hundredyards wide. Beyond the shore is the swampyland proper, fairly dry in summer and coveredby a dense growth of trees, bushes, ferns andmoss. In some places this moss is of the bushes are of the huckleberry va-riety, and it is among these that the Massa-sagua is frequently seen in August and Sep-tember, when berry-pickers go out into theswamp. T
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