Species and Subspecies of Zebras. 47 



The foal from Z()nil)a, iiu'iifioiiod above, i.s intorostin;^, 

 inasimicli as it (lifters from the tyj)ical form in having the 

 nostril-patches bhick and six complote bands and one short 

 one between the shoulder-stripo and the lirst flank-stripe 

 that dorsally takes a backward bend on to the summit of the 

 quarters, there being but four of tliese stripes in tiie type, 

 four or five being the number in the various forms of Burc/ielli, 

 as already pointed out by Prof. Ewart (* The Veterinarian,' 

 Nov. 1896, p. 11, author's copy). 



Subspecies Grantii, De Winton. 



ICqvHx BurchtUi Grnnti, de Wiiiton, Ann. & Mag. Jsat. Hist. (6) xvii. 

 p. ••'.lU (189(j). 



In the collection of the British Museum there are three 

 moie or less imperfect skins of this subspecies, which may be 

 comprehensively spoken of as the Masailand zebra. One of 

 these was shot by Mr. J. Thomson at Uganda (see Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 413, fig.) ; the others were obtained by 

 Dr. Gregory, one at Lake Baringo and the other on the Tlieca 

 Theca River, upper Tana River (type). 



It resembles the Nyasaland form Crawsliayi in the entire 

 absence of shadow-stripes, but may be readily distinguished 

 by the deep chocolate-brown colour of the stripes, which are 

 even wider than in Crawshay's zebra, those on the quarters 

 being very noticeably broader than the intervening spaces, 

 and by the black nostril-patches. The tail, too, is more 

 decidedly striped at the sides, the tuft being black. The 

 skin of the lower half of the legs is unfortunately cut away, 

 but these ajtjjendages were probably striped to the lioof. 



On geogra))liical grounds it might be suj^posed that this 

 subspecies would prove identical with Equus B'dhmi^ based 

 upon a skin alleged to have been brought from Kilima Njaro 

 and described by Matschie (SB. Ges. nat. Fr. Berlin, 1892, 

 p. lol) as being distinguished by its whitish-yellow colour, 

 broader stripes, legs banded though not strongly to the hoof, 

 and shadow-stripes visible only on the quarters, the absence of 

 any reddish-brown nostril-patches being subsequently added 

 as a differential character (Zool. Garten, xxxv. p. 70). As 

 has been observed, however {siipra^ p. 44), there is nothing 

 in this diagnosis that serves to distinguish B'dhmi from 

 specimens, said to be South-African, now living at the 

 Zoological Gardens in London, and ascribed, not without 

 justification, to E. Chapmanni^ Layard. At all events the 

 presence of the shadow-stripes stamps Bohmi as belonging 

 to the type of Burchell's zebra that is characteristic of the 

 area to the south of the Zambesi, and differentiates it at 



