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TELEQONY AND EEVERSION. 



(Fig. 24, F.S.). Between the shoulder and croup stripes 

 in the skin figured (Fig. 24) there are twenty-five stripes 

 running at nearly right angles to the dorsal stripe. But 

 as four of these are more or less forked at their origin, the 

 twenty-five probably represent at least twenty- nine vertical 



Fig. 26. 



Muuiiicuii Zci;ia {E. zebra). 



stripes. Hence it may be inferred that in still more primi- 

 tive zebras there were numerous narrow not very well de- 

 fined stripes running vertically across the body between the 

 shoulder and croup stripes. As in the case of the shoulder 

 stripe, several arches (modified femoral stripes. Fig. 24, 



