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thus very closely agree with the narrow recurved stripes in 

 the Somali zebra. In two of this year's hybrids the rump 

 is less marked than in Romulus, while in one there has 

 been from the first all but complete narrow wavy lines in 

 place of the spots originally present in Romulus. 



Although the arches within the two limbs of the shoulder 

 stripe are in Romulus almost as indistinct as were the 

 markings in this region in the quagga, they in a favorable 

 light are seen to be seven in number, i. e. as numerous as 

 in the Transvaal filly (Fig. 25) . Below the elbow, however, 

 the transverse markings are relatively broader and more 

 pronounced than in Matopo. On the outside of the leg 

 eighteen stripes can now be counted, while there are 

 seventeen on the inside. The spaces between the stripes 

 are of a dark mouse-colour from the elbow to immediately 

 below the knee, but they get gradually darker as the hoof 

 is reached, until it becomes almost impossible to detect 

 them. The inside of the leg is lighter than the outside, 

 the upper part of the forearm being of a drab colour on 

 its inner aspect. The oblique and flank stripes are not 

 very well defined in Romulus. There is, however, a stripe 

 which seems to correspond to the great flank stripe in his 

 sire, though in its position it more closely agrees with the 

 first complete femoral stripe in the Somali zebra. This, 

 the third in front of the stifle, extends upwards to arch 

 across the upper end of the flank feather,'^ to lose itself 

 amongst the spots over the hind quarters. The second 

 (intermediate) flank stripe runs obliquely across the feather, 

 expanding considerably near where the feather begins. 

 After a considerable interruption this stripe, as Fig. 32 

 shows, again appears as a narrow taperiug band running- 

 parallel to a more distinct stifle stripe lying at a lower 

 level. Now (1898) by the blending of spots the inter- 

 mediate stripe is more complete on the left side than at 



* I propose to call the "swirl" or hair-shed that usually extends iu 

 the horse between the stifle and the point of the ilium the flank feather. 

 A corresponding but shorter swirl, which I have occasionally seen extend- 

 ing upwards from near the elbow, may be known as the elbow feather. 



