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THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 



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and the true Burchell zebra, with perfectly white legs and 

 scarcely a vestige of transverse stripes across either croup or 

 loins" (Fig. 37), whilst "from the true Burchell zebra it is but 

 a step to the better marked specimens of the now lost, if not 

 extinct, quagga " (Fig. 38) : let us therefore pass on for the 

 moment to the Mountain Zebra, and then return to the 

 Burchell group. 



(12) The Mountain or Common Zebra (Equus zebra} 

 was formerly extremely common in the mountainous parts of 

 Cape Colony and Natal, but it has now become nearly extinct 



FIG. 29. Mountain Zebra. 



in that area, though up to the beginning of the late war there 

 was a fine herd near Cradock 1 . It was commonly called the 

 ' wild pard ' by the Dutch of Cape Colony. A local race of 

 this species is still to be found in Angola 2 (E. zebra penricei, 

 Thomas), whilst another race or sub-species (E. z. hartmanni, 



1 From private information which I have received since the conclusion of the 

 war, I learn that the Cradock zebras, or at least some of them, still survive. 



2 Mr Pocock holds that E. zebra penricei and E. z. hartmanni are very dis- 

 tinct from the typical E. zebra, the ground colour being brownish and the black 

 stripes only about as wide as the light spaces, whilst E. z. penricei and E. z. 

 hartmanni are probably distinguishable from each other. 



