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TELEGONY AND EE VERSION. 



these arches curve inwards on a level with the eyes, and 

 rundown to end in or near the nostril patches. The limbs 

 of the inner arch bifurcate about the level of the eyes, and 

 also proceed towards the muzzle, one of them again forking 

 on the way. AVithin the innermost acutely pointed arch 

 are two nearly vertical stripes ; both of these split where 

 they blend with the arch above, while the right one again 

 splits before it reaches the muzzle below. The three 



Fig. 21. 



Somali Zebra i^A'. grecyi). 



pointed arches and the first rounded arch meet in the 

 middle line, and from their junction the long hairs grow 

 out which form what I have spoken of as the frontal tuft. 



I have described thus fully the stripes on the front of 

 the face of Matopo that a comparison may be afterwards 

 made between his acutely pointed frontal arches and the 

 numerous rounded arches in the hybrid offspring, Eomulus 



