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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



Ngami area), one of which, the stallion, is antiquorum in 

 all its details, while the mare is almost a typical burchelli; 

 she is intermediate between burchelli and antiquorum, 

 inasmuch that the hocks, knees and fetlocks are slightly 

 striped, but the lower half of the hips, the lower belly and 



FIG. 58. Burchell's Zebras from Zululand. 



most of the legs are unstriped. (See photo : this has, 

 however, been unfortunately retouched by the block 

 makers, and a number of stripes put in which do not exist 

 on the living animal.) 



Two examples from Zululand are neither wahlbergi 

 nor chapmanni, partaking of the characters of both, and 

 in these only the first two barrel stripes join the median 



