Species and Subspecies of Zebras. 41 
the other by its paler colour and the presence of shadow- 
stripes *, 
It is the specimen represented in the left-hand figure that 
the two examples that I have seen mostly resemble. One of 
these is in the Rothschild Museum at Tring and the other in 
the City Museum at Bristol. ‘These examples, however, are 
not exactly alike, and for neither, unfortunately, is there, I 
believe, any exact locality known. 
In the Bristol specimen the head and neck are whitish 
and normally marked with brownish-black stripes. The 
upper part of the body and the quarters, on the contrary, are 
clothed with dark ruddy greyish-brown hair, the dark stripes 
* Mr. J. ffolliott Darling tells me that there is a specimen of this sub- 
species in the Dublin Museum. It has the shadow-stripes extending 
halfway along the neck as in the type; but there are faint bars upon the 
hocks and two of the flank-stripes pass beneath the belly to join the 
ventral stripe. 
