EQUIDJB 



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Typical locality northern Guaso-nyiro Valley, British 

 East Africa. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. Differs 

 from E. q. granti by the darker tint of the light stripes, 

 which are pale ochery buff, and the lighter dark stripes, 

 which are bistre-brown, except on the head, where, like 

 the nose-patch, they are seal- brown ; mane well-developed ; 

 arrangement of body-stripes as in E. q. granti and E. q. boehmi, 



FIG. 12. CUNINGHAME'S ZEBRA (Equus qiiagga cuninghamei), 



Mount Kenia. 

 From a photograph hy Mr. F. A. 0. Pym. 



but shadow-stripes completely wanting; the widest stripes 

 are the oblique ones on the quarters, between which and 

 the last of the nine neck-stripes are four stripes extending 

 downwards to join the longitudinal ventral stripe ; leg-stripes 

 below knees and hocks snuff-brown, and extending down to 

 hoofs, immediately above which they are fused into a con- 

 tinuous dark area. Skull with the rostral portion shorter 

 than in E. q. granti and a shorter diastema. Differs from 

 E. q. boehmi not only in the foregoing characters, but like- 

 wise by the somewhat inferior bodily stature. 



The range of this race, which is a desert type, extends 



