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the tip. The nostril-patches dull tan-coloured (possibly 
faded). 
In the character of its markings this zebra resembles in a 
general way the West-African 2. ant/quorum, but appears to 
differ at least in the fusion of the flank-stripes with the ventral 
stripe. Moreover, judging by the figure that Matschie has 
published, the body-stripes in antiquor wm are narrower than 
the intervening spaces, not broader as in Wahlberg?, and the 
principal stripes across the quarters are much broader and 
stronger as compared with the shadow-stripes than in the 
Zululand form. 
Unfortunately too little is known about Chapmanni to 
make a close comparison between it and Wahlbergi possible. 
It is stated, however, that the legs were marked to the hoof, 
and there is every reason for concluding that in a fairly 
strongly striped form, such as Chapmanni seems to be, the 
stripes upon the quarters exhibit no such indications of dying 
away as are observable in Wahlbergi. 
In the Rothschild Museum at Tring there is also an 
example of this subspecies from Zululand. It differs from 
the type in the breaking up of the stripes on the lower half of 
the quarters and shoulder into an irregularly reticulated 
pattern. 
Subspecies Selowsi?, nov. 
This subspecies is based upon a Specimen shot by Mr. F.C. 
Selous on the Manyami River in Mashunaland, and now 
exhibited in the Mammalian Gallery of the Natural History 
Museum (B.M. no. 83.7.28.9). 
The body and neck are covered with broad brownish-black 
stripes, which are considerably wider than the intervening 
yellowish-white spaces, and the principal stripes on the 
quarters form broad black bands more than half the width of 
the pale spaces. ‘These spaces are marked by narrow and 
faint shadow-stripes, much thinner than the principal stripes ; 
faint traces of similar shadow-stripes are just discernible on 
the flanks. ‘The tail is strongly banded, the stripes meeting 
the caudal continuation of the spinal stripe ; ; the tuft is black, 
with only a few long white hairs at its base. On the legs 
the stripes show no signs of diminution either in thickness or 
intensity, being black and nearly as broad as the intervening 
white bands, while over the fetlocks and pasterns they become 
more or less fused together, the lower part of the pastern 
being quite black. The inner side of the pasterns and fetlocks 
of all the limbs are as strongly striped as the outer side; the 
knees and hocks are also banded on the inner side, and on the 
