the Cape Colony Qunggm^. 319 



phadow-stripe except close to the head. Behind tlie shoulder- 

 stripe, which is very thick and (riturfato, there are tive vertical 

 stripes, and behind the filth a set of larger and smaller black 

 blotches resolvable inferiorly into about four stripes and into 

 perhaps twice that number on the summit of the hinrl-quarters. 

 Only th(^ distal half of the tail is furnished with lontr liairs. 



On the plate is the following legend : — " Zehra femina^ 

 sive asinn sj/lvpstris africana. Ur axon from the livincj animal 

 belonging to His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales." 



Daniell's Qnagga. 

 Subsp. Danielli, nov. (PI. X.) 



The Quahhah, Daniell's African Scenery, no. 15 (1804-1808) (type, 



stated to be dnnvn Irom life). 

 £f/uus qwifff/a, Cornwallis Harris, Portraits of Game, &c., from 



Southern Africa, 1840, pi. 2 (stated to be drawn from life). 

 ? Hippotiyri^ qiuicha, Hamilton Smith, Nat. Library, vol. xx. Horses, 



p. ooO (1841) (stated to be drawn from life in Table of Contents). 



iJescription of type. — Head, neck, upper part of shoulder 

 and of hind-quarters chestnut. Head narrowly striped ; 

 muzzle black. Neck striped ; the stripes sepia-brown, much 

 narrower than the intervening areas, tapering and wavy 

 inferiorly and sometimes bifurcating, but falling short of the 

 middle line of the throat. Mane white, its stripes narrow, 

 abuut thirteen in number from behind the ear. A itvf stripes 

 on the withers like those on the neck and not reaching half- 

 way down on the shoulder. Behind the withers there are 

 also a few similar short stripes ; but the posterior half of the 

 body and the hind-quarters are neither striped nor spotted. 

 Between the principal stripes on the neck and withers there 

 are here and there a ie,\v narrow detached stri[)es. The lower 

 half of the shoulder, of tiie body, and of the hind-quarters 

 white. Legs also white, with a narrow dark rim ai)ove the 

 hoof and a dark tutf on the back of the fetlock. Tail white, 

 equine ; the long hairs extending to the root. 



Daniel Ps figure is accompanied by the following letter- 

 press: — "This species of Wild Horse which the Hottentots 

 call Quahkah, is one of the most common and abundant of the 

 larger animals that are met with on the barren plains of 

 Southern Africa. It is generally found in numerous herds 

 that are mostly accompanied by a few harte-beests and 

 ostriches. They are tolerably swift; but the boors some- 

 times succeed by stratagem to take them alive by throwing 

 the noose of a rope over their heads. By domestication it 

 soon becomes mild and tractaljle, and might be rendered 



