318 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



skulls of Grant's, Chapman's, and Wablberg's Quaggas, 

 which are devoid of it, on the other. 



III. The Eaces of Cape Colony Quaggas. 



Edwards's Quagga. 



Equus quagga^ Gmelin. (PI. IX.) 



(Typical subspecies.) 



The Female Zebra, Edwards, Gleanings, v. ch. 13, p. 29, pi. 223 (1758) 



(type). 

 Equus quagga, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. Mammalia, p. 213 (1788). 



The original description of this animal runs as follows : — 

 " For size and shape it is much like the last described 

 [E. zehra]. To speak of its general colour (exclusive of its 

 stripes, which are all black), the head, neck, upper part of the 

 body, and thighs are of a bright bay-colour; its belly, legs, 

 and the end of the tail are white. On the joints of the legs it 

 had such corns as we see in horses ; the hoofs are blackish ; 

 the head is striped a little different from the last described 

 [£". zeira] ; the mane is black and white ; the ears are of a 

 bay colom* ; it is a little white in the forehead ; it hath 

 several broad stripes round the neck, which become narrow 

 on its under side : it hath a black list [stripe] along the 

 ridge of the back and part of the tail, and another along 

 the middle of the belly : the stripes on the body proceed from 

 the list on the back and some of them end in forks on the 

 sides of the belly, others in single points, and these have 

 some longish spots between them. The hinder part of the 

 body is spotted in a more confused irregular manner. The 

 two sides of this, as well as the last described, were marked 

 vei-y uniformly." 



One or two additional points not mentioned in the de- 

 scription, but shown by the figure, are sufficiently interesting 

 to record. The muzzle is blackish grey to about the same 

 extent as in Burchell's Quagga. The facial diamond consists 

 of three pairs of stripes (not four pairs, as stated by Mr. 

 Lydekker), the two admedians uniting at their ends to form 

 a long oval. Nine stripes are represented as passing from 

 the mane across the neck. Close to the mane these are 

 as broad as the interspaces, but towards the throat they 

 become very narrow, the three nearest to the head failing 

 to reach the middle line. None of the neck-stripes shows 

 a sign of reduplication or fusion, and there is no trace of a 



