Species and Subspecies of Zebras. 47 
The foal from Zomba, mentioned above, is interesting, 
inasmuch as it differs from the typical form in having the 
nostril-patches black and six complete bands and one short 
one between the shoulder-stripe and the first flank-stripe 
that dorsally takes a backward bend on to the summit of the 
quarters, there being but four of these stripes in the type, 
four or five being the number in the various forms of Burchelli, 
as already pointed out by Prof. Ewart (‘The Veterinarian,’ 
Nov. 1896, p. 11, author’s copy). 
Subspecies Granti?, De Winton. 
Equus Burchelli Granti, de Winton, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvii. 
p. 319 (1896). 
In the collection of the British Museum there are three 
more or less imperfect skins of this subspecies, which may be 
comprehensively spoken of as the Masailand zebra. One of 
these was shot by Mr. J. Thomson at Uganda (see Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 413, fig.) ; the others were obtained by 
Dr. Gregory, one at Lake Baringo and the other on the Theca 
Theca River, upper Tana River (type). 
It resembles the Nyasaland form Crawshayi? in the entire 
absence of shadow-stripes, but may be readily distinguished 
by the deep chocolate-brown colour of the stripes, which are 
even wider than in Crawshay’s zebra, those on the quarters 
being very noticeably broader than the intervening spaces, 
and by the black nostril-patches. ‘The tail, too, is more 
decidedly striped at the sides, the tuft being black. The 
skin of the lower half of the legs is unfortunately cut away, 
but these appendages were probably striped to the hoof. 
On geographical grounds it might be supposed that this 
subspecies would prove identical with Hguus Béhmi, based 
upon a skin alleged to have been brought from Kilima Njaro 
and described by Matschie (SB. Ges. nat. Fr. Berlin, 1892, 
p- 181) as being distinguished by its whitish-yellow colour, 
broader stripes, legs banded though not strongly to the hoof, 
and shadow-stripes visible only on the quarters, the absence of 
any reddish-brown nostril-patches being subsequently added 
as a differential character (Zool. Garten, xxxv. p. 70). As 
has been observed, however (supra, p. 44), there is nothing 
in this diagnosis that serves to distinguish Béhm7z trom 
specimens, said to be South-African, now living at the 
Zoological Gardens in London, and ascribed, not without 
justification, to LH. Chapmanni, Layard. At all events the 
presence of the shadow-stripes stamps Béhmi as belonging 
to the type of Burchell’s zebra that is characteristic of the 
area to the south of the Zambesi, and differentiates it at 
