Wild Ass, African
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 28 January 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 07 February 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 05 March 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 15 September 1904
Ridgeway congratulates Ewart on the announcement of his marriage. He reports that he has finally got a photograph of the Somali wild ass in Regent's Park from Dando. He mentions forthcoming papers about quaggas from Pocock and Lydekker and concludes by enquiring whether the quagga's markings and its bay colour are to be attributed to its living under the same climactic conditions as the Libyan horse.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William Bernhard Tegetmeier, 27 July 1897
Tegetmeier thanks Ewart for his letter and adds that he would like to publish the photograph of the 'foal' at an appropriate time. He also suggests he could easily procure photographs or drawings of a Somali ass and a young Burchell zebra at the zoo, since those of Lady Valerie Meux are not so readily obtainable.
The Wild Somali Ass, 1870s-1930s
Four photographs of the wild Somali ass which is 'distinguished by the absence of a distinct shoulder stripe and by the presence of very distinct leg markings. It is probably one of the asses which has been domesticated.'