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are concerned, the following observations, based mostly upon 

 a few living and stuffed animals, show that no value is to 

 be attached to the presence or absence of a median fronto- 

 nasal black stripe : — 



1. Equus quagga BarcheJU (in B.M.). — On the forehead 



there are three pairs of black stripes and one median 

 black stripe. On the nose the latter is double. 

 Hence the centre of the diamond is in its upper portion 

 a dark stripe^ in its lower portion a pale stripe. 



2. E. quagga Wahlhergi (type stuffed in B.M.). — Three 



pairs of symmetrically disposed stripes on the fore- 

 head. On the nose the inner or admedian stripe on 

 each side bifurcates, giving- rise to four pairs of 

 stripes. Diamond with pale median line throughout 

 its length. 



3. E. quagga Ghapmanni (in Zool. Gdns.).— Four pairs of 



symmetrical stripes on forehead, the second and third 

 from the outside fusing below the level of the eye. 

 One median black stripe on forehead confluent above 

 with the fourth on the right side, but splitting below 

 the eyes and turning aside towards the left out of the 

 middle line. Thus the centre of the diamond is a dark 

 stripe on the forehead, a pale stripe on the nose. 



4. E. quagga Chapmanni (Prof. Ewart's " Matoppo''). — 



Forehead with three pairs of symmetrical stripes and 

 the middle line pale. The second stripe on each 

 side was divided inferiorly and its inner branch again 

 divided on the left side, the nasal portion of the 

 diamond consisting of nine stripes. Hence the middle 

 line of the diamond on the forehead was pale, on the 

 nose black. 



5. E. quagga Oranti (in B.M., from Lake Baringo). — 



Two pairs of symmetrical black stripes and a single 

 median black stripe, making five in all. These 

 stripes, however, show signs of reduplication which 

 if completed would convert them into ten stripes, 

 leaving the median line pale. 



6. E. quagga Granti (in B. M., from Kilimanjaro). — Three 



pairs of black stripes and a median black stripe. 



7. E. quagga Granti (in Zool. Gardens, from Kilima- 



njaro). — Three pairs of symmetrical stripes on fore- 

 head and nose, but the admedian on the right side 



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