the Cape Colony Qungrjm^. 319 



shadow-stripe except close to the head. Behind the shoulder- 

 stripe, which is very thick and trifurcate, there are tive vertical 

 stripes, and behind the fifth a set of larger and smaller bhick 

 blotches resolvable inferiorly into about four stripes and into 

 perhaps twice that number on the summit of the hind-quarters. 

 Only the distal half of the tail is furnished with long hairs. 



On the plate is the following legend : — " Zebra femina^ 

 sive asina sylvestris africana. Drawn from the living animal 

 helonging to His Boyal Highness the Prince of Wales." 



Daniell^s Qaagga. 



Subsp. Daniellij nov. (PL X.) 



The Quahhah, Daniell's African Scenery, no. 15 (1804-1808) (type, 



stated to be drawn from life). 

 Equns quagga, Cornwallis Harris, Portraits of Game, &c., from 



Southern Africa, 1840, pi. 2 (stated to be drawn from life). 

 ? Hippotigris quacha, Hamilton Smith, Nat. Library', vol. xx. Horses, 



p. 330 (1841) (stated to be drawn from life in Table of Contents). 



Description of type, — Head, neck, upper part of shoulder 

 and of hind-quarters chestnut. Head narrowly striped ; 

 muzzle black. Neck striped ; the stripes sepia-brown, much 

 narrower than the intervening areas, tapering and wavy 

 inferiorly and sometimes bifurcating, but falling short of the 

 middle line of the throat. Mane white, its stripes narrow, 

 about thirteen in number from behind the ear. A few stripes 

 on the withers like those on the neck and not reaching half- 

 way down on the shoulder. Behind the withers there are 

 also a few similar short stripes ; but the posterior half of the 

 body and the hind-quarters are neither striped nor spotted. 

 Between the principal stripes on the neck and withers there 

 are here and there a few narrow detached stripes. The lower 

 half of the shoulder, of the body, and of the hind-quarters 

 white. Legs also white, with a narrow dark rim above the 

 hoof and a dark tuft on the back of the fetlock. Tail white, 

 equine ; the long hairs extending to the root. 



DanielPs figure is accompanied by the following letter- 

 press : — " This species of Wild Horse which the Hottentots 

 call Quahkah, is one of the most common and abundant of tlie 

 larger animals that are met with on the barren plains of 

 Southern Africa. It is generally found in numerous herds 

 that are mostly accompanied by a few harte-beests and 

 ostriches. They are tolerably swift; but the boors some- 

 times succeed by stratagem to take them alive by throwing 

 the noose of a rope over their heads. By domestication it 

 soon becomes mild and tractable, and might be rendered 



