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backwards towards the root of tbe tail ; no 

 concentric arrangement of stripes round 

 the root of the tail ; muzzle dark, usually 

 black ; the stripes on the nose continuous 



-with the nostril-patches (Masailand to Cape 



Colony.) 

 a^. Hairs alonpr the spine between the rump 

 and the withers reversed in direction of 

 growth; ears longer, hoofs narrower, 

 tail-tuft more scanty ; all the body- 

 etripes, with the exception of two which 

 pass on to the rump and quarters, running 

 up to meet the spinal stripe and cutting 

 it at right angles ; the area which lies 

 oyer the rump between the spinal stripe 

 and the uppermost haunch-stripe which 

 runs to the root of the tail not longitu- 

 dinally striped, but covered with the so- 

 called giidiron pattern of transverse bars, zebra, Linn. (Moun- 

 tainous parts of 

 Cape Colony.) 

 b^. Hairs on spine not reversed in direction ; 

 ears shorter, hoofs broader, tail-tuft 

 fuller : the upper ends of some five or 

 six of the stripes in the posterior half of 

 the body bent backwards in a direction 

 parallel to the spinal stripe ; the area 

 between the stripe then runs to the root 

 of the tail, and the spinal stripe on the 

 rump not covered with transverse bars, 

 but crossed longitudiually by the back- 

 wardly extending upper extremity of at 

 least one of the body-stripes (not true of 



quagga in every particular) (Plains and tablelands 



of East and South 

 Africa.) 

 a'. Ground-colour of neck, body, and quar- 

 ters mostly pale ochre-yellow, some- 

 times almost white, not chestnut ; the 

 stripes, which extend back as far as 

 the rump and quarters, complete, and 

 showing but slight indications of 



breaking up into spots (Burchell's zebra f^ensu 



latissimo.) 

 a*. Quarters marked with strong com- 

 plete stripes below the long stripe 

 that runs to the root of the tail ; 

 legs striped at least as far as the 

 hocks and knees ; body-sti-ipes ex- 

 tending on to the belly and (except 

 in antiquorum) touching the belly- 

 stripe ; tail spotted or striped laterally 

 c*. Ko trace of shadow-stripes between 

 the principal stripes either on the 

 body or quarters ; principal stripes 

 on the quarters broader, or at 



