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Closely allied to the Kilimanjaro race, and 

 perhaps really intergrading with it, is the bonte- 

 quagga of British East Africa, which has been 

 named E. b. granti (pi. xviii. fig. 2), and may be 

 known in English as the Masai race. 



In this race, as well as in the nearly allied 

 E. b. crawshayi of Southern Nyasaland (British 

 Central Africa) and in E. b. jallce of Southern 

 Abyssinia, the shadow-stripes have completely 

 vanished, and the principal stripes on the hind- 

 quarters are at least equal in width to the inter- 

 vening spaces, which are white. In crawshayi the 

 dark stripes are relatively narrow and of a full 

 black, the nostril-patches are yellowish brown, 

 or tan-colour, and the pasterns are marked like 

 those o{ selousi. On the other hand, in the British 

 East African granti, the stripes are broader and 

 in some cases less completely black, and the bars 

 on the pasterns are fused into a continuous black 

 band. In the South Abyssinian E. b. jallcB there 

 is said to be a difference in the number of the 

 stripes, as compared with granti^ but the difference 

 is considered by Mr. Roux ^ to be merely individual. 



Apparently related to crawshayi is a bontequagga 

 from North-eastern Rhodesia {^E. b. annecians), 

 characterised by the great excess in width of the 

 dark over the light stripes. In this place it may 

 be mentioned that some bontequaggas from British 



^_ Op. cit.^ p. 924. 



