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transverse stripes that are increasingly developed in the more 

 northern races, and the tail is white. 



The former range of this race was rather limited and covered what 

 is now the Orange Free State and southern Bechuanaland, in South 

 Africa, but apparently did not extend to the south of the Orange 

 River. Over the plains of this region it once abounded "in countless 

 thousands," but with the coming of white hunters, followed by 

 settlers in the Orange River colony, it had already become rare by 

 the middle of last century. Many were exported to Europe for 



FIG. 35. Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchellii burchellii). After Brehm. 



zoological gardens, and it is in part from these that have come the 

 few specimens still preserved in museums. There is a specimen in the 

 British Museum, one in the Tring Museum, and a third in the 

 Bristol Museum, in England, and there is a mounted one in the U. S. 

 National Museum, and one in the Paris Museum, with a few others in 

 other museums, as Berlin, Leiden, and South Africa. The last 

 living specimen, so far as known, was one kept in the London 

 Zoological Gardens, where it was received apparently in 1909, after 

 evidently having been in captivity for a period. 



From Benguela west to Southern Rhodesia and Zululand, this race 

 is replaced by the race antiquorum, with more cross-striping on the 

 upper parts of the limbs. At the present time this animal still exists 

 in some numbers in the west of South-West Africa. From the Lim- 

 popo River northeastward to the Loangwa and Rovuma Rivers is 



