THE ISABELLA QUAGGA. 333 



know that even in the foetus the black marks are 

 very distinctly visible, the objection is not valid, 

 and there are besides other indications which prove 

 the skin to have belonged to an adult. * We there- 

 fore shall describe the specimen under the above 

 name, in order to attract the attention of natu- 

 ralists, and leave to future information the final 

 determination of its locality as a species or acci- 

 dental variety. 



The Isabella Quagga is, as before remarked, much 

 below the stature of the others, and in a stufied 

 form proportionably longer ; the specimen is a male, 

 and, compared with the quagga, has a different 

 coloured nose, ears, and mane, — all being white; 

 the general tone of the head, neck, body, and croup 

 is yellowish buff, with brownish streaks on the face 

 and cheeks, but more undefined, and not extending 

 the usual length ; on the neck, shoulder, body, and 

 croup there is a series of bands more numerous 

 than in the dauw, some few are branched, but in- 

 stead of a dark colour, while the specimen was 

 recent, they were all pure white, and those on the 

 croup particularly numerous and interwoven; the 

 belly and limbs are white, but, as if to prove that 

 these marks were not tlie result of albinism, the 

 anterior pasterns and rings above the hoofs of the 

 posterior feet were sooty black and the hoofs dark. 

 These marks do not occur in any known species. 



* Ir the whole group there is a greater tendency to lose the 

 marks with age than to increase them, AVhen we last saw the 

 specimen, the original colour was much changed. 



