species and Subspecies of Zebras. 43 



pass on to the lower surface of the helly, thoui^h without 

 coming into contact with the ventral stripe. SliaJow-stripes 

 are visible over the quarters and Hanks almost up to the 

 withers, the tail is laterally banded, and the nostril-patches 

 are reddish brown. 



Hamilton Smith calls this form the Congo Dauw, thougli 

 there is no evidence that theexam[)le he figured and described 

 came from that region. Matsehie, on the other hand, speaks 

 of it as the Damaraland zebra on the evidence afforded by a 

 specimen in the Berlin Museum from the southern border of 

 the Kalahari desert and from a reference to a zebra with 

 white legs said by Chapman to inhabit Damaraland. 



1 have had no opportunity of examining a sjjccimen of this 

 subspecies. 



Subspecies Chapmanni^ Layard. 

 JE'/uus Chapmanni, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G!), p. 417. 



^Vhen Layard establislied this s|)ecies he was apparently 

 alike unsuspicious of its near relationship to E. Burckilli and 

 unaware of the existence of E. aiitiquorum, since the emphatic 

 terms in which he speaks of its distinctness apply to it only 

 as compared with the mountain zebra {E. zebra). From 

 this point of view E. Chapmanni is, of course, a well-marked 

 form, but i'romantiquorum it seems to differ only in characters 

 of subspecific importance. There is, however, unfortunately 

 no type specimen and no figure, so far as I am aware, of any 

 of the original examples from which the description was 

 drawn up. But provisionally, at all events, the name may 

 be attached to the form figured by Dr. Sclater as Chapmanni 

 (P. Z. S. 1865, pi. xxii.), a drawing of apparently the same 

 subspecies being published in Sir William Flower's book on 

 the Horse, p. 87. From the account given by Layard it 

 may be gathered that Chapmanni may be recognized from 

 antiquorum at all events in the union of the lower ends of 

 the body-stripes with the ventral stripe. The legs, too, are 

 marked, though sometimes only faintly, to the hoof. Baines, 

 indeed (/. c. p. 419), comparing Chapmanni \x\t\i what he calls 

 Burchell's zebra, though probably not referring to the typical 

 Burchelli, mentions the extension of the leg-stripes to the 

 hoof in Chapman's zebra as compared with the stopping 

 short of these marks at the hocks and knees in Burchell's 

 species as the chief distinguishing feature between the two. 

 Nevertheless it is questionable what value is to be attached 

 to this character in comparing Chapmanni with antiquorum^ 

 since H. Smith, in his diagnosis of the latter, states tliat the 



