92 THE HOESE. 



mane. The general ground-color is white, and the 

 stripes are black ; the lower part of the face is bright 

 brown. With the exception of the abdomen and 

 the inside of the thighs, the whole of the surface is 

 covered with stripes, the legs having narrow, trans- 

 verse bars reaching quite to the hoofs, and the base 

 of the tail being also barred. The outside of the 

 ears have a white tip, and a broad, black mark occu- 

 pying the greater part of the surface, but are white 

 at the base. Perhaps the most constant and obvious 

 distinction between this species and the next is the 

 arrangement of the stripes on the hinder part of the 

 back, where there are a number of short, transverse 

 bands passing between the median longitudinal, dor- 

 sal stripe and the uppermost of the broad stripes 

 which pass obliquely across the haunch from the 

 flanks towards the root of the tail. There is often 

 a median longitudinal stripe under the chest. 



JEquus burchelli is a rather larger and more ro- 

 bust animal, with smaller ears, a longer mane, and 

 fuller tail. The general ground-color of the body 

 is pale yellowish brown, the limbs nearly white, the 

 stripes dark brown or black. In the typical form 

 the stripes do not extend on to the limbs or tail ; but 

 there is great variation in this respect, even in ani- 

 mals of the same herd, some being striped quite 

 down to the hoofs, as shown in the specimen figured 



