40 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the 
This species was apparently first met with, by the traveller 
whose name it bears, across the Vaal River in British 
Bechuanaland. ‘The exact locality of the type specimen 
seems to have been unrecorded, Gray contenting himself with 
the statement that the species occurs on the flats near the 
Cape. Burchell, however, tells us that he fell in with this 
species at several localities—to wit, Klaarwater, Kuruman, 
Littaku, &e. Matschie, indeed (Zool. Garten, xxxv. p. 66, 
1894), believes that it extends eastwards as far as Zululand, 
basing his opinion apparently upon the assertion by Buckley 
that Burchell’s zebra is common in that country. It seems 
evident, however, that Buckley was speaking, not of the 
typical Burchelli, nor of the form recognized by Matschie as 
Burchel, in which there are no stripes on the legs, fore or 
hind, and only the merest traces of them on the flanks, but 
of either the form termed Chapmanni or that named 
Wahlberg?, in which, as explained below, the stripes reach 
below the hocks or even to the hoofs. 
According to Gray, the body of the type was white and 
marked with alternate broad stripes of black and narrow ones 
of brown, the latter nearly filling up the intervals between 
the former. Moreover, the “ shadow-stripes,” as stated in the 
description and clearly shown in the figure, were visible not 
only on the shoulder but right up the neck almost as far as 
the head. In other words, it may be briefly said that every 
broad black stripe on the neck and body was accompanied by 
its corresponding shadow-stripe ; and, lastly, none of the body- 
stripes pass beneath the belly, and only the upper part of the 
flank is ornamented with them, the lower part of this region, 
the belly, legs, and tail being quite white, and, according to 
Gray, without stripes, though probably this assertion must 
not be considered to include the median belly-stripe and the 
spinal stripe, which in all other known zebras spreads on to 
the root of the tail. 
The form figured and described by Matschie (Zool. Garten, 
xxxv. p. 66, 1894) as Burchell’s zebra, though showing the 
same distribution of stripes as in Gray’s type, appears to 
differ from it in the entire absence of shadow-stripes. None, 
at least, are mentioned in the description and none appear on 
the figure taken from a living specimen, from an unstated 
locality, in the Zoological Gardens at Berlin. 
But though differing from the type, this specimen seems 
to resemble the left-hand figure of the plate depicting 
Burchell’s zebras published by Gray in the ‘ Knowsley 
Menagerie,’ the drawing on the right representing an animal 
closely approaching the typical form, and distinguishable from 
