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the colours, its whole body was of the purest white, marked with 

 jet-black bands down to every hoof, in the manner of the other, but 

 slightly fainter on the inside of the legs, and also where the stripes 

 of the sides joined to the longitudinal line of the belly, some of 

 those on the flanks having these points so faintly marked that the 

 junction could not be called complete ; like the other, a central stripe 

 ran along the back, with which two or three of the shoulder-stripes 

 (on each side) were connected, the broad stripes of the hinder parts 

 originating near the central line about the insertion of the tail, and 

 diverging laterally over the hip, flank, and side till they completely 

 or nearly reached the ventral line, the longest of them meeting on 

 their way the ventral stripes of the sides, and forming the most 

 beautiful possible combination of curves and angles, even the slight 

 variation of regularity on either side conducing to the effect ; the 

 ears were small, and banded and tipped with black and dark brown ; 

 the head well shaped, with a little sienna-brown towards the nose ; 

 and the whole form lighter and more elegant than in the older spe- 

 cimens. 



" Sunday, September 14th. — I shot two, which at first I took 

 for Mountain-Zebras ; but on comparing notes with Chapman, I came 

 to the conclusion they were also Quaggas. The stallion fell at a di- 

 stance, and was cut up while I was sketching and observing the mare. 

 She was full-striped, somewhat smaller than most of those Chapman 

 had killed ; ears, if anything, shorter and more equine. Callosities 

 or small bare patches of skin on the inside of the fore legs only, and 

 not on the hinder legs ; striped right down to the hoofs ; inside more 

 faintly marked than the outer. Dokkie and others thought it like 

 the Wilde Paard of Ozembengue, and diff'erent to the Quacha of the 

 plains. I believe they would have said anything, so that I would 

 have done talking and let them begin to cut it up. 



" Sunday, December 7th. — Went out from Logu Hill, Zambesi 

 River ; tracked spoor several hours ; wounded a mare, which was run 

 down late in the afternoon, and killed with a stone. Fully striped, 

 as before, down to the hoofs, all four legs, the inside of the forearm 

 and thighs being more faintly marked ; the ears small and tipped 

 with black ; the stripes on the sides extended from the dorsal line 

 to the ventral, which last, reaching from between the fore legs to the 

 hinder, was of not quite so deep a black ; the ground-colour was light- 

 yellowish brown on neck, back, and sides, passing into white on the 

 cheeks, throat, and under parts of body ; the teats, two in number, 

 were situated in the after part of the black ventral line. She had 

 warts or callosities on the inside of the forearms only, and none on 

 the inside of the thigh. 



*' I sketched carefully, and took the skin home, attempting to pre- 

 serve it ; but the weather was so damp that, even in a hut with a 

 fire in it, I could not dry it. 



"Tuesday, 14th April, 1863 (after our return to the salt-pan on 

 the elevated plain between the Zambesi and Botletle rivers). — A 

 few Quaggas were standing on the further plain, and creeping behind 

 a point at 300 yards' range. I shot one through the neck and fore- 



