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reach a race in which, like all those which follow, the body-stripes^ 

 meet the ventral stripe inferiorly, while the legs are more or less 

 fully striped. In this particular race the shadow- stripes 

 on the hind-quarters are strongly developed, and not much 

 narrower than the main stripes, which are narrower than the inter- 

 vening spaces; and the fetlocks and pasterns are devoid of stripes or 

 spots. This race is represented in the collection by a specimen 

 (M. 1022) purchased in 1846 from Mr. Wahlberg, after whom it is 

 named. In Chapman^s Bonte-Quagga {E. burchelli chapmani) the 

 shadow-stripes have become faint and narrow, the legs are marked to 

 the hoofs, but the stripes on their lower portions tend to break up 

 into spots^ and the inferior part of the pasterns is not wholly black. 

 This race inhabits the country between Damaraland and Mata- 

 bililand; it is represented in the exhibited collection only by a 

 photograph. The last representative of the species in which 

 shadow-stripes are distinctly developed is the Mashona Bonte- 

 Quagga {E. burchelli selousi), of which an example shot by Mr. F. 

 C. Selous (M. 1023) is exhibited in the large case in the Horse 

 bay in the lower mammal gallery. It differs from the last in 

 that the striping of the legs is complete right down to the hoofs ; 

 the pasterns beiug striped on both sides, and their lower part, 

 owing to the fusion of several stripes, wholly black. The sides 

 of the tail are also striped. 



All the foregoing races inhabit the country south of the 

 Zambesi, but they have a representative north of that river in the 

 Kilimanjaro Bonte-Quagga (E. burchelli boehmi, M. 1021), 

 which is nearly allied to E. b. selousi, but retains scarcely any 

 trace of shadow-stripes, while the stripes on the pasterns remain 

 distinct from one another. The shadow-stripes are frequently 

 visible only on the hind-quarters. The specimen exhibited was 

 presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



The most northern members of the species are Crawshay's 

 Bonte-Quagga [E. burchelli craw shmji) of British Central Africa, or 

 Nyasaland, represented by a head (M. 1019) given by Lt.-Col. 

 Manning in 1901, and Grant^s Bonte-Quagga {E. burchelli granti) 

 M. 1020, fig. 24), ranging from British East Africa (Masailand) 

 to Southern Abyssinia, of which a complete specimen from Lake 

 Baringo is shown. In both races the shadow-stripes have 



