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For tlie type of this species may be selected the specimen, 

 belonc-iiiff to the then Prince of Wales, wliich was fia;ured and 

 described as the female of the mountain zebra by Edwards 

 in his ' Gleanings of Natural History,' v. pi. ccxxiii. The 

 other references cited by Gmelin are to a description given by 

 Peimant in his * History,' p, 14. no. 3, to the mention of the 

 species by Masson (PiiiL Trans. (Acta Angl.) Ixvi. p. 297), 

 and to a figure published by Buffon (Hist. Nat. xii. p. 1, 

 pi. ii.) which unmistakably represents an example of E. zebra, 

 Linn. 



Edwards's figure and description make perfectly clear the 

 essential characters of the type of this now extinct species. 

 The ground-colour of the body and head were a pale chest- 

 nut, the belly, legs, and tail, including the tuft, being white. 

 The muzzle was darker than the face, being of a brownish 

 hue, but not so black as in Burchell's zebra; the head, neck, 

 and fore part of the body, however, were strongly marked 

 with black stripes, apparently exactly as in that species. 

 Moreover, on the hinder part of the flanks and up|)ei- part of 

 the quarters the stripes dorsally take a backward bend 

 assuming an obliquely longitudinal direction, but, instead of 

 being continuous, they were broken up into a series of blotches 

 or large spots; and a row of similar spots was observable on 

 each side of the spinal stripe between the withers and rump, 

 these spots representing the upper ends of the flank-stripes. 

 The spinal stripe was continued on to the tail, and there was 

 a median ventral stripe, the rest of the belly, like the whole 

 of the lower part of the quarters and legs, being free from 

 stripes. 



The specimen figured and described by H. Smith as 

 E. isabeUinus is said by Gray to be the young of E. quagga. 

 Unfortunately the type, once in the British Museum, appears 

 to be no longer in existence. It differed from all known 

 zebras, and resembled the asses, in having the muzzle white 

 and the mane unstriped. 



The example identified as the quagga contained in the 

 collection of the British Museum differs strikingly from the 

 specimen figured by Edwards in the indistinctness and 

 indefiniteness of the stripes not only on the body, but also on 

 the head and neck. Instead of the well-defined black stripes 

 noticeable in the original figure, all the stripes are reddish 

 brown, and on the head are only distinct on the area that lies 

 between the eyes and ears, on the cheek, and on the nose to a 

 point halfway between the eye and the nostril. The neck is 

 marked with irregular broad brown double stripes separated 

 by narrow yellowish-white interspaces ; the withers are 



