NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



the so-called sub-species or local races are merely 

 individual variations. 



It seems to me there are only two good local races, 

 viz. those with the black barrel stripes not reaching 

 the ventral longitudinal stripe ; and those in which 

 all the black barrel stripes meet the ventral longi- 

 tudinal stripe, viz. those with the barrel stripes right 

 round the body, and cut through by the ventral 

 longitudinal stripe. The others seem to be mere 

 variations from these two types. 



The Reverend Gilmore Edwardes, of Port Eliza- 

 beth, contributes the following interesting account 

 of a Zebra hunt in the Cradock District of the Cape 

 Province : 



" Zebras in South Africa are royal game, and 

 may not be killed or caught without a permit. This 

 document is one not easy to procure, and always 

 limits the sportsman strictly to a specified number in 

 each case. Mr. John de Klerk, whose farm, Doorn- 

 hoek, lies among the mountains some fifteen miles 

 to the west of Cradock (Cape Province), had the 

 good fortune recently to obtain such a permit, 

 authorising him to catch six Zebras (two of which 

 were to form part of South Africa's present of wild 

 animals to His Majesty King George), and forth- 

 with invited a number of friends from the farms 

 in the district, and from the neighbouring town of 

 Cradock, to join in what proved to be an exciting 

 day's sport. 



" Assembling at the homestead early in the 

 196 



