COMMON ZEBRA OR BONTE-QUAGGA 687 



master stallion generally acted as leader, when there was 

 any leader. He would round up the mares and drive them 

 whither he wished; and he would trot a few paces toward 

 any strange object, leaving the herd behind and watching 

 intently, with ears pricked forward. We have never been 

 able to watch a herd of wild game close enough to tell 

 whether the individuals all fall into an ordered system of 

 precedence, as ranch cattle do, where gradually each steer, 

 bull, or cow seems to accept its exact place with reference 

 to its fellows. 



Key to the Races of quagga 



Dark stripes blackish or deep seal-brown; light stripes (ground-color) 

 cream color or whitish without ochraceous suffusion 

 Body size smaller, skull length usually less than 21 inches; light 

 stripes whitish granti 



Body size large, skull length usually greater than 21 inches; light 

 stripes cream color bohmi 



Dark stripes, seal-brown or bistre; light stripes darker than cream 

 color, usually pale ochraceous-buff. Body size small, 

 the skull length less than 20 inches cuninghamei 



Highland Quagga Zebra 



Equus quagga granti 



Native Names: Masai, ol-oitigo; Kikamba, nthai; Kikuyu, njagi; Acholi, 

 lagware ; Luganda, entulege. 



Equus burchelli granti DeWinton, 1896, Ann. ^ Mag. Hist., XVII, p. 319. 



Range. — The highlands of British East Africa west- 

 ward through Uganda to the Edward Nyanza and north- 

 ward on the east side of the Nile as far as the Mongolia 

 district and the headwaters of the Sobat River northwest 

 of Lake Rudolf, east to the eastern edge of the highland 

 plateau down to an altitude of three thousand feet in Brit- 

 ish East Africa, and north as far as the south bank of the 

 Tana River; southern limits of range in German East 

 Africa unknown. 



