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Matschie) still survives in considerable numbers in German 

 West Africa. The Mountain Zebra more nearly resembles the 

 ass than Burchell's zebra, for its hoofs are narrow, it has a 

 more tufted tail, a shorter mane, a thicker neck and longer ears 

 (7^ inches); it has large and very broad chestnuts on the fore- 

 legs ; it is not so large as Burchell's zebra, as it stands only 

 about 12 hands high. Its general ground colour^ is white, but 

 the stripes are black and broader than the intervening spaces 



Fig. 30. Head of Grant's Zebra. 



(being not so close as in the Somali zebra but closer than in 

 Burchell's). The body stripes are all nearly perpendicular, 

 whilst the legs are covered with horizontal bands down to the 

 hoofs (Fig. 29). This zebra has a very narrow dorsal band, 

 the hair of which is reversed from the croup forwards, a 

 peculiarity only found in this species-. But the most distinc- 

 tive feature in its marking is the 'gridiron' — a number of 



1 Except in the Angola and German S. W. Africa races (cf. p. 62). 

 - This fact was first pointed out by Mr E. I. Pocock, Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 Vol. XX. (1897), p. 306. 



