species and Subspecies of Zebras. 



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the otlier by its paler colour and the presence of shadow- 

 stripes *. 



It is the specimen representeJ in the left-liand figure that 

 the two examples that I have seen mostly resemble. One of 

 these is in the Kothschikl Museum at Tring and the other in 

 the City Museum at Bristol. These examples, however, are 

 not exactly alike, and for neither, unfortunately, is there, I 

 believe, any exact locality known. 





In the Bristol specimen the head and neck are whifish 

 and normally marked with brownish-black stripes. Tiie 

 upper part of the body and the quarters, on the contrary, are 

 clothed with dark ruddy greyish-brown hair, the dark stripes 



* Mr. J. ftblliott Darling tells me that there is a specimen of this sub- 

 species in the Dublin Museum. It has the shadow-stripes extending 

 halfway along the neck as in the type ; but there are faint bars upon the 

 bocks and tico of the flauk-strip'es pass beneath the belly to join the 

 ventral stripe. 



