THE GREW ZEBRA 705 



seal-brown to bistre, and are always a decided brown rather 

 than black in tone. They are darkest on the neck and 

 lightest on the rump and face, where they sometimes as- 

 sume a reddish tint or chestnut color. The median ventral 

 stripe is hair-brown and much lighter than the stripes on 

 the dorsal surface. The nose is marked by a bright-tawny 

 patch bordered behind by an unstriped area of pale-buff 

 and in front by the white lips and chin. The terminal half 

 of the ears is seal or bistre brown, in contrast to the pale- 

 cream ground-color of the lower half and inner side. The 

 tail tuft is rather shorter than in other zebras and measures 

 only 9 or lo inches in length. In appearance it is cream- 

 white above, lined below by black hair. From the crown 

 to the withers extends a short, erect mane some 6 or 7 inches 

 in height and striped alternately with light and dark trans- 

 verse stripes continuous with their fellows on the neck. 

 No variation in mane due to age, such as takes place in the 

 quagga, occurs in this species. The newly born young are 

 quite reddish on the body, due to the russet color of the 

 body stripes, but the forward half of the body and the legs 

 are striped by dark seal-brown, as in the adults. At this 

 early age the nape mane is short and fuzzy and continuous 

 along the midline of the back by a low mane covering the 

 dorsal stripe. The striped pattern in the adult consists of 

 twenty or twenty-two transverse dark stripes on the body 

 between the shoulder stripe and the hip stripe, the stripes 

 having a width of i to lyi inches, the light interspaces 

 being somewhat narrower and measuring Y^, of an inch in 

 width. They extend vertically from the light border of 

 the dorsal stripe to the lower sides, but do not cross the 

 belly and join the ventral stripe, but terminate abruptly 

 on the lower sides. Posterior to the hip stripe the rump is 

 marked by very narrow transverse stripes >< inch in width, 

 which are somewhat diagonal in direction and become 

 progressively shortened as the base of the tail is approached. 

 Below the forking of the hip stripe the transverse leg stripes 

 begin and continue down the hind limb to the hoof. The 

 middle line of the back is marked by a broad dorsal stripe 

 2 inches wide from the withers quite to the tail tuft and is 

 bordered for most of its length by a broad light stripe of the 

 ground-color, except on the withers, where the transverse 



