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extends on to the forehead four inches beyond the occipital 

 crest, to end in hairs which project directly forwards im- 

 mediately above a tuft of hair,"^ quite two inches in length, 

 that grows upwards at one side of the mane from the 

 point where the lower frontal stripes meet. The ears, which 

 are wide and rounded at the tips but not very long (6f 

 inches measured along the upper surface), are lined with 

 almost white hair, and have dark margins. When pro- 

 jected forwards the ears form with the mane three broad 

 bands, which like the stripes melt into grey by moonlight. 



The upper part of the tail (about ten inches) is trans- 

 versely striped, and one third of the striped part is covered 

 with short hair similar to that on the hind quarters. From 

 the terminal part of the tail long dark persistent hairs 

 grow out, which reach to within a foot of the ground. 

 The intermediate part of the tail bears hairs which are 

 shed annually. These hairs vary in length from two to 

 eight inches ; some are black, while others are white. In 

 the autumn some of these hairs form a crest continuous 

 with the dorsal band, while others project outwards to 

 form two lateral fringes. I need only mention further, as 

 to the colour of the hair, that though the muzzle looks 

 black in some lights it looks grey in others. This is due 

 to the fact that the all but black skin is only sparsely 

 covered by very short light hairs. Above each nostril the 

 hair is of a brownish colour. In the ill-defined " nostril 

 patches " several of the facial stripes terminate. Between 

 the dark brown " nostril patches " the hair is almost black ; 

 in the Somali zebra, it may be mentioned, the muzzle some- 

 times in colour resembles that of a typical Exmoor pony 

 (is, in fact, ''mealy-coloured"), while the nostril patches 

 are of a bright tan colour. 



In Matopo, as in most of the Burchell zebras, the stripes 

 on the forehead have a somewhat lozenge-shaped arrange- 



* I sliall speak of this tuft of hair as the frontal tuft ; a similar but 

 usually shorter tuft is found in the horse under the forelock. The forelock, 

 which is sometimes considered a special growth, consists simply of the 

 front part of the mane. 



