Zoological Society bulletin (1913) (14760155211)

Identifier: zoologicalsociet55601newy (find matches)

Title: Zoological Society bulletin

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: New York Zoological Society

Subjects: Zoology

Publisher: (New York) : New York Zoological Society

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ng or Dzeggetai, Equus hemion us, east and south of Lake Baikal. (The Kulan. Equus , east of the Caspian Sea, the Kirghez Steppes, and Turkestan. TheOnager, Equus omnia, northwestern India and Persia.\\ ii h assks The Hemippus, Equus hemippus, northern Arabia and northwestern Persia.JThe Gour or Ghour, Eqmis . Rajpootana Desert. I The Abyssinian ;i. Equus asinUs, Abyssinia and the Nubian Desert.The Somali ass, Equus taeniopus, E. somalicus, eastern Soraaliland. / 1 he Grevy zebra. Equus grevyi, southern AbyssiniaI Foas zebra, Equus turn, near the Zambezi.l (iranta zebra, Equus granti, Masailand./!...,. Chapmans zebra, Equus chapmani, Matabeleland. /.KKK \> .. 1...11V ...-.! El ( /..//: !»..*. iii. southern Abyssinia. The Gall a country and northernlSomaliland. / Burchells zebra. Equus burchelli, BetuanaThe Quagga, Equus quagga. Cape of Good Hope.The .Mountain zebra. Equus zebra, Cape of Good Hope,Equus Imil mil in nr Equus jie u ricei, West Africa. 948 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN.

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Fig. 11. THE EXTREMELY RARE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA. Equus zebra. the North to striping confined to the shouldersand anterior portion of the trunk in the Quaggaof the South. This fading out of the stripes,which affords a color transition between thesebrilliantly marked animals and the apparentlymonotonous color of the Przewalsky horse,affords strong ground for believing that all thehorses were originally striped. This beliefis strengthened by the fact that reversionalstriping occurs in all the dun colored horses onthe face, the limbs, and the shoulders, while themedium back stripe is found in the duns, baysand browns among the horses. The Mountain Zebra (Fig. 11) is the rarestanimal in our entire collection, because it isnow extinct throughout a large part of itsformer range and is carefully protected by theSouth African government in its remainingmountain fastnesses. Like the Grant zebra, itscolor bands are very broad and comparativelyfew in number, but it possesses a broad gridironof transve

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