66 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. 



first met by Chapman, in South Africa, about 200 miles inland 

 from Walwich Bay^ between the Botletle and the Zambesi. 

 This variety is only distinguished from Burchell's zebra by 

 having its legs striped instead of plain (Fig. 36). But 

 Mr T. E. Buckley'^ writing of Chapman's zebra says that " out 

 of five of these animals shot in one herd there were individuals 

 showing variation of colour and marking from the yellow and 

 chocolate stripes to the pure black and white, the stripes in 

 some cases ceasing above the hock and in others being con- 

 tinued distinctly down to the hoof. The true Burchell zebra 

 (Equus burchelli typicus) was first discovered by Burchell near 

 the Orange River in southern Bechuanaland. It is still to 

 be met with alonof the northern and eastern borders of the 

 Transvaal, in Kama's country, and up to lately it still sur- 

 vived in great numbers in the neighbourhood of the Pungwe 

 River. Its general colouring is pale yellowish -browm, the 

 stripes being dark brown, or nearly black. There is always a 

 longitudinal stripe along the under side, and the dorsal stripe 

 is defined by a white line over the haunches, and there are not 

 any stripes proceeding from it at right angles as in Crawshay's 

 zebras (infra) ; whilst in all the Somali Zebras stripes proceed at 

 right angles from the withers to the root of the tail, in all Burchell 

 zebras there are three or more transverse stripes proceeding 

 from the dorsal band behind the withers ; nor has it the cross 

 stripes on the croup w^hich are so marked a feature of the 

 Mountain Zebra (Fig. 29), but it has intermediate or ' shadow ' 

 stripes on the neck, trunk, and hind-quarters. The stripes on 

 its forehead form a series of arches which are pointed instead 

 of being rounded as in the Somali species. It differs from the 

 Mountain Zebra (p. 63) by its greater height (ranging from 13 

 to lo'2 hands), by the greater length and thickness of its mane, 

 by its bushy and more horse-like tail, and by the smaller size 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 417 sqq. (letter from Layard and "Notes on a 

 new variety of Quagga observed on the elevated Hats between the Botletle and 

 Zambesi rivers during the late journey of J. Chapman and P. Baiues" with 

 a block showing the Chapman variety). Mr Selous met it in Matabeleland 

 (P. Z. S. 1883, p. 32), but the Matabele zebra is regarded as a distinct sub- 

 species (E. selousi) by Mr E. I. Pocock (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 306). 

 Tegetmeier, Horses, Asses, Zebras, pp. 51-2. 



2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 282 ("Distribution of South African Mammals"). 



