ADDENDUM 



The species has been inadvertently omitted from the text. 



FOA'S ZEBRA 

 (Equusfoai] 



To the zebra inhabiting the mountainous country opposite Teti, 

 on the north bank of the lower part of the Zambesi, Messrs. Prazak 

 and Trouessart in 1899 (Bulletin Museum cTHistoire Naturelle, Pan's, 

 vol. v. p. 350) gave the name Equus foai. From all races of the 

 bonte-quagga this zebra is distinguished by the larger number of main 

 stripes on the body and hind-quarters, and by the circumstance that 

 there is no backward bending (except in the last of the series) of the 

 body-stripes as they approach the dorsal stripe, to which they run 

 approximately at right angles. In this respect Foa's zebra approxi- 

 mates to the true zebra and Gravy's zebra, from both of which it 

 differs by the stripes on the hind-quarters adjacent to the dorsal stripe 

 running parallel with it in the direction of the tail, as in the bonte- 

 quagga, instead of at right angles. Consequently, the " gridiron " 

 pattern of zebra, and the concentric stripe-arrangement of grevyi in 

 this region are alike wanting. In the general build, as well as in the 

 shape of the head and ears, Foa's zebra is nearer to the bonte-quagga 

 than to either of the other two species. This is borne out by the 

 fact that the body-stripes meet the stripe traversing the middle line 

 of the under surface. The legs are striped to the fetlocks, and the 

 pasterns are black. 



