38 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the 
For the type of this species may be selected the specimen, 
belonging to the then Prince of Wales, which was figured and 
described as the female of the mountain zebra by Edwards 
in his ‘Gleanings of Natural History,’ v. pl. eexxui. The 
other references cited by Gmelin are to a description given by 
Pennant in his ‘ History,’ p. 14. no. 3, to the mention of the 
species by Masson (Phil. Trans. (Acta Angl.) Ixvi. p. 297), 
and to a figure published by Buffon (Hist. Nat. xi. p. 1, 
pe 11.) which unmistakably represents an example of £. zebra, 
inn. 
’ Edwards’s figure and description make perfectly clear the 
essential characters of the type of this now extinct species. 
The ground-colour of the body and head were a pale chest- 
nut, the belly, legs, and tail, including the tuft, being white. 
The muzzle was darker than the face, being of a brownish 
hue, but not so black as in Burchell’s zebra; the head, neck, 
and fore part of the body, however, were strongly marked 
with black stripes, apparently exactly as in that species. 
Moreover, on the hinder part of the flanks and upper part of 
the quarters the stripes dorsally take a backward bend 
assuming an obliquely longitudinal direction, but, instead of 
being continuous, they were broken up into a series of blotches 
or large spots; and a row of similar spots was observable on 
each side of the spinal stripe between the withers and rump, 
these spots representing the upper ends of the flank-stripes. 
The spinal stripe was continued on to the tail, and there was 
a median ventral stripe, the rest of the belly, like the whole 
of the lower part of the quarters and legs, being free from 
stripes. 
The specimen figured and described by H. Smith as 
E. isabellinus is said by Gray to be the young of H. quagga. 
Unfortunately the type, once in the British Museum, appears 
to be no longer in existence. It differed from all known 
zebras, and resembled the asses, in having the muzzle white 
and the mane unstriped. 
The example identified as the quagga contained in the 
collection of the British Museum differs strikingly from the 
specimen figured by Edwards in the indistinctness and 
indefiniteness of the stripes not only on the body, but also on 
the head and neck. Instead of the well-defined black stripes 
noticeable in the original figure, all the stripes are reddish 
brown, and on the head are only distinct on the area that lies 
between the eyes and ears, on the cheek, and on the nose to a 
point halfway between the eye and the nostril. ‘he neck is 
marked with irregular broad brown double stripes separated 
by narrow yellowish-white interspaces; the withers are 
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