5 8 ZEBRAS, QUAG GAS, AND ASSES 



the Transvaal, differing from the typical wahlbergi by the extension of 

 the shadow-stripes on to the neck, has been named E. b. transvaalensis. 

 In Chapman's bonte-quagga (E. b, chapmani) the shadow-stripes have 

 become faint and narrow, the legs are marked to the hoofs, but the 

 stripes on their lower portions tend to break up into spots, and the 

 inferior part of the pasterns is not wholly black. This race inhabits 

 the country between Damaraland and Matabililand. The last repre- 

 sentative of the species with distinct shadow-stripes is the Mashonaland 

 bonte-quagga (E. b. selousi}, which differs from the last in that 

 the striping of the legs is complete right down to the hoofs, the 

 pasterns being striped on both sides, and their lower portion, owing 

 to the fusion of several stripes, wholly black. The sides of the tail 

 are also striped. 



The foregoing races inhabit the country south of the Zambesi, but 

 they have a representative north of that river in the Kilimanjaro 

 bonte-quagga (E. b. boehmf], which is nearly allied to E. b. selousi, 

 but retains scarcely any trace of shadow-stripes, while the stripes on 

 the pasterns remain distinct from one another. The shadow-stripes 

 are frequently visible only on the hind-quarters. 



The two most northern races are Crawshay's bonte-quagga (E. 

 b. craws hay i) of British Central Africa, or Nyasaland, and Grant's 

 bonte-quagga (E. b. granti), ranging from British East Africa (Masailand) 

 as far north as southern Abyssinia. In both these races the shadow- 

 stripes have completely disappeared, and the principal stripes on the 

 hind-quarters are not narrower, and may be broader, than the inter- 

 vening spaces, which are white. In E. b. crawsliayi the stripes are 

 relatively narrow and deep black in colour, while the nostril-patches 

 are yellowish brown, or tan, and the pasterns coloured like those 

 of E. b. selousi. In E. b. granti, on the other hand, the stripes are 

 broader and apparently less completely black, while the nostril-patches 

 are black, and the stripes on nearly the whole of the pasterns have 

 fused into a continuous black patch. It is noteworthy that the 

 difference between E. b. granti on the one hand, and E. b. typicus on 

 the other, in the matter of colour and pattern, is much greater than 

 that between the latter and the quagga. A zebra from the Duma 

 valley, German East Africa, has been named by Dr. Matschie 

 (Weidwerk in Wort und Bild, 1906, p. 236) Hippotigris muanscz, and 

 is said to differ from transvaalensis by the arrangement of the stripes 

 round the eye. 



According to an account furnished by Mr. F. C. Selous, it appears 

 that bonte-quaggas begin to breed in August, " although most of the 



