322 Mr. R. I. Pocock on 



tlie correctness of the determination of the Society's specimen. 

 One need only compare the two illustrations, both taken by 

 the same artist from actual specimens, to find ample justi- 

 fication for any dubiety on the point that may have been 



felt. 



Lorenz's Quagga. 



Subsp. Lorenzi, Lydd. 



Equus quagga, Lorenz, P. Z. S. 1902, vol. i. pp. 32-38, fig. 7. 

 Equus quagga Lorenzi, Lydekker, Knowledge, xxv. p. 221 (1902). 



Nose clay-coloured (?), between the nostrils dark brown; 

 chin and throat chestnut. Stripes on the sides of the head 

 clay-brown (?= reddish brown), and very broad as compared 

 with the narrow linear cream-coloured interspaces. Neck 

 with eight very broad yellowish-brown stripes passing from 

 the mane to the middle line of the throat, those lying towards 

 the head and shoulder narrower than the rest; these stripes 

 are entire, being undivided and are separated by relatively 

 extremely narrow light creamy interspaces, which, broadly 

 speaking, appear to be about one third the widtii of the 

 stripes. Mane dark chestnut, with ten tufts of whitish hair 

 at the sides. 



In front of the shoulder-stripe run two narrower stripes 

 to meet on the breast. The shoulder-stripe is broad and 

 bifurcates inferiorly ; in the angle thus formed there are 

 about four transversely angular stripes. Behind the shoulder- 

 stripe on the body there are seven distinct stripes, which 

 become obsolete inferiorly where they bifurcate and become 

 confluent with the buff colour of the adjacent interspaces. 

 Of these stripes the first three have an extreme width of 

 8 or 10 cm., the width of the interspaces, which are siiarply 

 defined in their upper half, being from 1 to 1'5 cm. The 

 fourth stripe, which seems to be double, sends a branch 

 obliquely backwards to the croup and thus encloses a tri- 

 angular area, of which the spinal stripe forms one side. 

 Within this there is another broad longitudinal stripe anas- 

 tomosing twice or thrice with the oblique one and with the 

 spinal stripe. The triangles on both sides form a kind of 

 saddle, as in Burchell's Zebras. The fifth and sixth bands 

 run obliquely back over the haunches, botii becoming 

 gradually narrower at their upper ends and tailing short of 

 the spinal stripe. The seventh stripe, which is distinct, 

 ahhough narrow and twice interrupted, runs from the groin 

 over the haunches towards the root of the tail. In front of 

 it there is a short band, and behind on the back of the 

 haunches three or four oblique and gradually fading stripes. 



