ITS NEAEEST EXISTING RELATIONS. 



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(this form has been named E. chapmani). There is 

 a strongly-marked median longitudinal ventral black 

 stripe, to which the lower ends of the transverse side 

 stripes are usually united ; but the dorsal stripe (also 



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Fig. 13. — Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchelli). 



From a photograph by Mr. Gambler Bolton of an animal living in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens. The legs are more striped than is usual 

 in this species. 



strongly marked) is completely isolated in its poste- 

 rior half, and the uppermost of the broad haunch 

 stripes runs nearly parallel to it. A much larger 

 proportion of the ear is white than in the other 

 species. In the middle of the wide intervals of the 



