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on the legs, it is curious to note that the bontequagga 

 presents a condition precisely the reverse of that 

 which occurs in the case of the giraffe ; the southern 

 races of the former having white, unstriped legs, 

 whereas it is the northern forms of the latter in 

 which the lower portion of the limbs is white and 

 unspotted. 



The typical bontequagga,^ now nearly or entirely 

 extinct in the wild state, stands about 12 hands 

 at the shoulder, and has the ground-colour orange, 

 and the shadow-stripes on the hind-quarters strongly 

 marked, and narrower than the main stripes, which 

 are themselves broader than the light interspaces 

 containing the shadow-stripes. The hind-quarters 

 have only a few short stripes below the long 

 stripe running to the root of the tail ; the body- 

 stripes stop short on the sides of the under-parts, 

 so as to be widely separated from the longitudinal 

 ventral stripe ; and, with the occasional exception 

 of a few on the knees and hocks, the legs are 

 devoid of stripes, as are usually the sides of the 

 tail. Nearly allied is the Damara E. b. antiquorunt, 

 in which stripes occur on the legs above the 

 knees and hocks, but none, or at most a few, 

 below them. Zululand is the home of a race, 

 E. b. wahlbergi, in which, like all those which 

 follow, the body-stripes meet the ventral stripe 

 inferiorly, while the legs are more or less fully 



^ See Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, p. 415, fig. 48. 



