82 Zebras. 



while in Burchell's zebra the ground colour of the 

 body is a yellowish-white,, with broad and narrow 

 stripes of black and brown, the legs being nearly 

 white and usually unstriped ; but,, as is the case 

 with one of the animals at the Zoo, the stripes in 

 some cases extend to the hoofs, and to this variety 

 the name Equus Chapmanni has been givea. 

 However, to quote Sir W. H. Flower, " perhaps 

 the most constant and obvious distinction between 

 the species is the arrangement of the stripes on 

 the hinder part of the back, where in the common 

 zebra there are a number of short transverse 

 bands leading to the median longitudinal dorsal 

 stripe, and unconnected with the uppermost of 

 the broad stripes, which pass obliquely across the 

 haunch from the flanks towards the root of the 

 tail " ; a difference which must strike the least 

 observant when the animals are seen side by side. 

 Though the common zebra is only found quite in 

 the South of Africa, within Cape Colony, a nearly 

 allied species, named Equus Grevyi by M. Milne- 

 Edwards, has within the last few years been dis- 

 covered in Northern Somali Land, the type-speci- 

 men having been sent to the Jardin des Plantes, 

 in Paris, in the year 1882, since which time 

 several skins have been received in Europe, but, 

 we believe, no other living specimen. In Equus 

 Grevyi the stripes, though they are arranged very 

 much as they are in the common zebra, are finer 

 and more numerous. When the new zebra was 

 first brought to notice Sir W. H. Flower was 



