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means restricted to the mountains of Cape Colony, 

 for in 1898 Professor P. Matschie^ described, under 

 the name of Hippotigris hartmanncs, a zebra from 

 the Kaokofeld, between the Hoanib and Unilab 

 rivers, in Damaraland, which is certainly nothing 

 more than a local race of the present species. It 

 is true that in the original description the Damara 

 zebra was stated to have fewer stripes on the fore- 

 head than the Cape animal, but this feature has 

 been subsequently found to be inconstant, as has 

 likewise the presence of a pale band on the thigh. 2 

 On the other hand, the Damara zebra seems to be 

 characterised by the chocolate-colour of the dark 

 stripes, and by the light intervals being tawny in- 

 stead of white. The Damara zebra may, therefore, 

 be known as E. zebra hartinanncs. 



Two years after the publication of the descrip- 

 tion of the Damara race Mr. O. Thomas ^ proposed 

 the name of Equiis penricei for a zebra typified by 

 an animal shot by Mr. Penrice at Providencia, 

 about seventy kilometres to the north-east of 

 Mossamedes, in Southern Angola. That this animal 

 is nothing more than a local race of E. zebra seems 

 certain, and at present there is no sufficient evidence 

 of its right to distinction from the race described by 

 Professor Matschie. 



1 Sitz. Ber. Ges. Natiirfor. Freunde, Berlin, 1898, p. 175. 

 ^ See W. L. Sclater, Fauna of S. Africa — Mammals^ vol. i. p. 

 286. 



^ Ann. Mag. Nat. History, ser. 7, vol, vi. p. 465, 1900. 



