42 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the 
being less distinctly defined than on the neck and more or 
less losing themselves in the brownish colour of the inter- 
vening spaces. ‘The lower half of the quarters and of the 
shoulder, as well as the belly, are whitish, the pale tint of 
the latter region being rather sharply defined from the dusky 
tint of the flanks. The belly-stripe is distinct, but the legs 
are without stripes, though the knees and shins of the fore 
legs and the pasterns and fetlocks of fore and hind legs are 
distinctly brownish. ‘There are no shadow-stripes in any 
way comparable in extent and distinctness to those which 
were visible in the specimen described by Gray, there being 
none visible upon the neck and those on the flanks and 
quarters being merely represented by indistinct patches or 
blotches. And, lastly, it may be mentioned that the spinal 
stripe is separated from the upper ends of the flank-stripes, 
but is touched on each side on the rump by a short branch 
from the adjacent stripe. The nostril-patches are black. 
The example in the Tring Museum, so far as could be 
judged from a cursory examination, differs from the one just 
described in two respects—namely, the upward extension of 
the flank-stripes to touch the spinal stripe and the presence of 
bars upon the knees and hocks. 
On account of the prevalent misconception as to the 
characters of the true Burchell’s zebra, a sketch taken from 
the specimen in the Bristol Museum has been published on 
p- 41 of this paper. 
There is no specimen of this zebra in the British Museum, 
and it appears to be scarce in the menageries and museums 
of this country; and on account of the general application of 
the term Burchelii to any or all of its subspecies, we are in 
ignorance of the exact area that it now occupies in 8. Africa. 
Subspecies antiqguorum (H. Smith). 
Hippotigris antiquorum, H. Smith, in Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, 
Horses, p. 527, pl. xxii. (1841). 
Equus antiquorum, Matschie, Zool. Garten, xxxv. p. 68, fig. (1894). 
According to the figures published by Hamilton Smith and 
Matschie, and to the description given by the latter author, 
the zebra that received the name ant/quorum, on the suppo- 
sition that it was specifically identical with the one seen in 
the early days of African travel in the Congo region by 
Pigafetta, differs from Burchell’s zebra in having the stripes 
extending over the quarters almost down to the hock and 
from the shoulder to the knee, while those on the flanks, 
instead of stopping short where the white of the belly begins, 
