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striped. In this particular race ^ the shadow-stripes 

 on the hind-quarters are strongly developed, and 

 not much narrower than the main stripes, which 

 are narrower than the intervening spaces ; and the 

 fetlocks and pasterns are devoid of stripes or spots. 

 In the Matabili E. b. chapmani {^\. xvii. fig. 2) the 

 shadow-stripes have become faint and narrow, the 

 legs are barred to the hoofs, but the stripes on their 

 lower portions tend to break up into spots, and the 

 inferior part of the pasterns is not wholly black. 

 This race inhabits the country between Damaraland 

 and Matabililand. The last representative of the 

 species in which shadow-stripes are distinctly de- 

 veloped is the Mashona E. b. selousi, which differs 

 from the last in that the barring of the legs is 

 complete down to the hoofs ; the pasterns being 

 striped on both sides, and their lower part, owing 

 to the fusion of several stripes, wholly black. 

 The sides of the tail are also striped. 



On the north side of the Zambesi the species 

 is first represented by E. c. boehmiiy^X. xviii. fig. i), 

 typically from the plains around Kilimanjaro, which 

 appears to connect E. b. selousi'^ with the more 

 northern races, retaining slight traces of shadow- 

 stripes, which in many cases are visible only on 

 the hind-quarters, and having the bars on the 

 pasterns distinct from one another. 



^ See Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, p. 416, fig. 49. 

 * Mr. J. Roux, Revue Suisse de Zoologie, vol. xviii. p. 924, 1910, 

 considers selousi inseparable from boehmi. 



