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The following is the ilescription of the skin (of which the head is mounted) 

 of a marc shot by Mr. H. W. Haig, at Yalalnb, iu the Eastern Sndan, and pre- 

 sented by that gentleman in I'JUl to the British Mnseum, where it bears the 

 register nnmber 1. 7. 1. 1. 



" General colour of upper-parts greyish fawn, with the muzzle, a broad ring 

 round each eye, the nnder-snrface of the lower jaw (iuter-ramine space), the angle 

 of the throat, and the nnder-parts, white or whitish ; the legs being of the same 

 pale hue, with some greyish on the front surface, and a few small dark spots 

 on each side of the fetlocks. The mane, which commences between the ears, is 

 short, upright, and dark brown or blackish in colour. The narrow dorsal stripe 

 measures from f to i in. in width, and is continued as a thin line well on to the 

 tail ; the two branches of the shoulder-stripe, which are of about the same width as 

 the dorsal one, are about 5 in. in length. The long hairs of the terminal tail-tnft, 

 measuring about .5J in. long, are mingled black and grey. The ears are about 

 lOi in. in length, and are black at their tips on both surfaces, for a short distance. 

 On the inner side of the lower part of the fore-leg is a chestnut patch of 2 in. 

 in length." 



Another skin, from near Kassala, referred to by Mr. de Winton, agrees in 

 all respects with the preceding, although the hair has acquired a faint yellowish 

 tinge in the process of curing. Apparently the specimen living in the London 

 Zoological Gardens in 1884, and figured on a very small scale by Dr. Sclater 

 in Plate L. of the Zoological Society's Proceedings for that year, was likewise of 

 the same general type. 



The specimen forming the subject of Plate XX. of the present article is a 

 young but adult male, collected (with two others) by Messrs. Charles Rothschild, 

 Henley, and Wollaston, on February 10th, 1904, at Nakheila, on the south bank 

 of the Atbara River, in the Eastern Sudan. Of this animal the skin (mounted 

 by Rowland Ward, Ltd.) and skeleton were presented by Mr. Rothschild to the 

 British Museum. The second example from the same locality is mounted in the 

 Museum at Tring, and the third in the Edinburgh Museum. 



The figured specimen, as mounted, stands 3 ft. 9| in. at the withers ; the 

 ear is 10| in. in length, and the width of the front hoof 3^ in. The general colour 

 (of the winter coat) is pale grey fawn ; the mane is short and sparse ; and the 

 ears and head are proportionately very large, the latter being of nearly the same 

 size as in the much larger Somali race. The blackish dorsal stripe is extremely 

 narrow, and the shoulder-stripe, which gradually narrows to a point, extends only 

 about 6 in. on each side of the middle line ; the dorsal stripe becomes almost 

 obsolete above the tail-tnft. There is an irregular brownish patch on each side 

 of the front fetlock— larger on the inner than on the outer side — but no other 

 markings on the limbs. 



A somewhat older male, killed in the same locality and now in the Edinburgh 

 Mnseum, stands, as mounted, 3 ft. IH in. at the withers; and a third example, 

 now in Mr. Rothschild's Museum at Tring, is fully as large. 



Botli in Mr. Sclater's paper on the Somali wild ass and in the notice of the 

 Nubian race in Anderson's Afamimds of Egypt, reference is made to the impossibility 

 of employing Baron Heuglin'.s l-jquus taenioputi for either. According to lleuglin, 

 it is the Nubian wild ass that has barred legs and no shoulder-stripe, and the 

 Somali animal in which these conditions are reversed ; and it would accordingly 

 seem that he transposed the localities of his specimens. 



