216 Zoological Society : — 



the journals of Mr. Chapman and Mr. Baines relating to this 

 Zehra." 



" Extract from Mr. J. Chapman's Journal, dated Maij 21, 18G2. 



"The Quaggas here, I think, from ahout Sechellies', though by- 

 no means new to me, are different to any we see described in books 

 of natural history. The brush of the tail of one I shot to-day, and 

 which is rather a young specimen, is a dark grey, while the base is 

 white. In older specimens the brush is black, with a few white hairs 

 intermixed. It has a head band traversing the middle of the belly, 

 from which the transverse bands diverge alternately. The stripes 

 are of a very deep rich brown, nearly black ; while the ground-colour 

 is raw sienna on the upper parts (back, rump, sides, &c), but gra- 

 dually fading into white on the lower parts. It has an erect mane 

 of alternate bands of white and black, edged with brown. The ears 

 are white, with a dark band near the tip and broader band at the 

 base. The muzzle is grey or lead-coloured, and behind the nostrils 

 a brown coffee-colour. It has a bare spot on all four fetlocks, with 

 a brown crescent-shaped spot on either side of it. A bare patch above 

 the knee, on the inside of each fore leg. The pastern joints are brown, 

 excepting at the back, where it is divided vertically by a white line 

 from fetlock to hoof. The ears are decidedly equine. The mane is 

 G inches long on the back ; commencing from about 4 inches down 

 the forehead, extends to the length of 1\ feet down the back. The 

 markings of it are continuations of the transverse lines which cross 

 the back. The white bands on the mane are quite superficial, the 

 hair underneath being actually black, edged with brown. Length of 

 ears 6 inches. The head measures 2 feet from the top of the skull 

 to the point of upper lip. From the root of the mane on the fore- 

 head and from top of forehead narrow lines of white and black (the 

 latter sometimes streaked with brown in the middle) diverge in a 

 triangular manner towards the eyes, where the outside lines, making 

 an angle, continue down the face, drawing closer towards the extre- 

 mity of the face (the inside lines being straight), where they blend 

 and form a dark brown patch behind and above the nostrils, the 

 muzzle and the lips being grey. Broader bands emanate from this 

 dark muzzle, and cross the chest in a crescent shape, leaving a white 

 margin around the eyes, behind which the regularity of the lines is 

 interrupted by those of the neck ; and the space from below the eye 

 is filled up with markings of a hieroglyphical character. The stripes 

 under the chin are light brown. The circumference of the neck is 

 2 feet. The dorsal line extends to the brush of the tail, which is of 

 a dark grey ; and on the base of the tail, which is white, it becomes 

 narrower, and is dotted all the way clown on either side with spots of 

 black, edged with brown. The form of the tail approaches nearer to 

 that of the Horse in the largeness of the brush than the Zebra or the 

 Ass ; but it is still not exactly like a Horse's tail. On the thighs 

 the stripes are alternately pale brown and deep brown, horizontal, but 

 curving and forming a right-angled triangle on the flank; and an 

 acute and more perfect triangle is formed on the shoulder-blades by 



