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stripes, and also the relative proportions of the white and fawn 

 areas," he is "disposed to regard the quagga, as figured by 

 Edwards, Harris, and Smith, as representing the same type of 

 animal." He believes that the difference between the stuffed 

 quaggas and the figures taken from living animals or fresh 

 skins is entirely due to fading or inaccurate drawing. Mr 

 Pocock 1 not only adheres to the subdivision given above, but 

 adds a third sub-species E. quagga danielli (Fig. 40) which, 

 although "known only from figures and descriptions, is the 

 best marked of the four, and the one that is perhaps the most 

 interesting in the matter of coloration to students of the equine 

 family." The head, neck, and upper part of the shoulders and 

 of the hind-quarters were chestnut, the head being normally 

 striped, the muzzle being black, the neck having sepia-brown 

 stripes much narrower than the intervening areas, tapering and 

 wavy inferiorly and sometimes bifurcating, but falling short 

 of the middle line of the throat. The mane was white with 

 narrow stripes, about thirteen in number, from behind the 

 ear. There were a few stripes on the withers like those on 

 the neck, and not reaching half-way down on the shoulder. 

 Behind the withers there were also a few similar short 

 stripes, but the posterior half of the body and the hind- 

 quarters were neither striped nor spotted. Between the principal 

 stripes on the neck and withers there were here and there a few 

 narrow detached stripes ; the lower half of the shoulder, of the 

 body, and of the hind-quarters as well as the legs were white 

 with a narrow dark rim above the hoof and a dark tuft at the 

 back of the fetlock. The white tail was equine in character, the 

 long hairs extending to the root. In its markings the Vienna 

 quagga comes nearest of all existing specimens or representa- 

 tions to the Burchell Zebra. 



Mr Pocock has argued with considerable force that the 

 Burchell Zebras and the quaggas of Cape Colony are only sub- 



1 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1 Nov., 1904 (with plate), reduced facsimile of the 

 drawing from life in Samuel DanielPs African Scenery (1804-8), No. 15. (The 

 types are said to be drawn from life.) My figure is a still more reduced fac- 

 simile from the same drawing. I have been enabled to give this figure and that 

 of the typical quagga (Fig. 38) by the kindness of Mr Pocock. 



