GRANT'S ZEBRA. 



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usual " heroic " horse-taming methods. Throughout South 

 Africa, this variety of zebra is wrongly called a " quagga." 



Chapman's Zebra (Equus hurchelli, chapmani, 

 Fig. 623) is found in Nyasaland. It appears to be identical 

 with Burchell's zebra, except that its legs have stripes 

 which are continued down to the pasterns, but which are 

 not so well deiined as those of the mountain zebra. As 

 all degrees of striping on the legs are met with in various 

 specimens, it is reasonable to conclude that the mere 



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Fig. 624. — Grant's zebra. 



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absence or presence of stripes on the limbs is simply a 

 question of individual or local variation, and that the so- 

 called Chapman zebra should be regarded merely as a 

 variety of Burchell's zebra. 



Grant's Zebra {Equus burchelli, granti, Fig. 624) 

 appears to be a variety of Burchell's zebra. It closely 

 resembles Chapman's zebra, from which it differs : (i) 

 by the dark stripes on the legs being more sharply defined ; 



