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tlie tip. The nostril-patches dull tan-coloured (possibly 

 faded). 



In the character of its markings this zebra resembles in a 

 general way the West-African E. antiquorum, but appears to 

 differ at least in the fusion of the flank-stripes with the ventral 

 stripe. ^loreovor, jud,!;Mng by the figure that Matschie has 

 published, the body-stripes in antiquorum are narrower than 

 the intervening spaces, not broader as in ]Vahlherfji\ and the 

 principal stripes across the quarters are much broader and 

 stronger as compared with the shadow-stripes than in the 

 Zululand form. 



Unfortunately too little is known about C/mpmanvi to 

 make a close comparison between it and Wahlberiji possible. 

 It is stated, however, tliat the legs were marked to the hoof, 

 and there is every reason for concluding that in a fairly 

 strongly striped form, such as Chapmanni seems to be, the 

 stripes upon the quarters exhibit no such indications of dying 

 away as are observable in Wahlhergi. 



In the Kothschild Museum at Tring there is also an 

 example of this subspecies from Zululand. It differs from 

 the type in the breaking up of the stripes on the lower half of 

 the quarters and shoulder into an irregularly reticulated 

 pattern. 



Subspecies Selousii, nov. 



This subspecies is based upon a specimen shot by Mr. F. C. 

 Selous on the Manyami River in Mashunaland, and now 

 exhibited in the jNIammalian Gallery of the Natural History 

 Museum (B.M. no. 83.7.28.9). 



The body and neck are covered with broad brownish-black 

 stripes, which are considerably wider than the intervening 

 yellowish-white spaces, and the principal stripes on the 

 quarters form broad black bands more than half the width of 

 the pale spaces. These spaces are marked by narrow and 

 faint shadow-stripes, much thinner than the principal stripes; 

 faint traces of similar shadow-stripes are just discernible on 

 the flanks. The tail is strongly banded, the stripes meeting 

 the caudal continuation of the spinal stripe ; the tutt is black, 

 with only a few long white hairs at its base. On the legs 

 the stripes show no signs of diminution either in thickness or 

 intensity, being black and nearly as broad as the intervening 

 white bands, while over the fetlocks and pasterns they become 

 more or less fused together, the lower part of the pastern 

 being quite black. The inner side of the pasterns and fetlocks 

 of all the limbs are as strongly striped as the outer side ; the 

 knees and hocks are also banded on the inner side, and on the 



