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zebra, but the dark stripes upon the haunches are about the 

 same breadth as, or are slightly wider than, the intervening 

 light spaces, and it shows no intermediate ' shadow ' stripes 

 whatever; the spot above the nostrils is bright tan colour; the 

 stripes of the body are almost pure black (in this respect 

 resembling both the Grevy and Mountain Zebras), whilst the 

 ground colour varies from nearly pure white (as in the Grevy 

 species) to nearly pale fawn, and there are several indistinct 



Fig. 35. Burchell's Zebra (Grant's Variety), from Kilima Ndjaroi. 



stripes across the croup suggestive of the ' gridiron ' of the 

 Mountain Zebra, the root of the tail having spots rather than 

 stripes, and there are long black hairs at the tip of the tail, 

 "and the stripes on the forehead are often arched, as in the 

 Somali Zebra I" 



^ From a photograph kindly sent me by Mr Carl Hagenbeck. 

 2 Hayes, o'p. cit., pp. 664-5 (who cites De Winton). 



