324 Mr. K. I. Pocock on 



particulars : — The stripes on the head, neck, and shoulders 

 (when present) narrow and separated hy relatively wider 

 interspaces. The neck irregularly banded, the stripes showing 

 a tendency to split (in the British Museum and the Tring 

 specimens), or fuse in pairs (in the Amsterdam specimen), or 

 to be accompanied by shadow-stripes (as in the type in the 

 British Museum). In the latter and the Tring specimen 

 the creamy interspaces are discernible behind the withers for 

 a short distance. In the Amsterdam specimen they stop 

 short at the base of the neck. The posterior half of the body 

 is at most confusedly banded, the stripes apparently losing 

 their distinctness owing to their disintegration and fusion 

 and to the evanescence of the interspaces, which have assumed 

 tlie same colour as the stripes themselves. There is thus a 

 sharp contrast between the coloration of the neck and that of 

 the body. No stripes seem to be discernible upon the hind- 

 quarters. 



The following specimens are probably, I think, referable to 

 this subspecies : — 



1. The specimen in the Edinburgh Museum. 



2. The specimen in the Amsterdam Museum, figured by 



Mr. Lydekker (P. Z. S. 1904, i. fig. 86, p. 430). 



3. The specimen in the British Museum. This is the 



type of E. quagga Oreyi^ Lydd. It lived in the 

 Zoological Society's menagerie from Sept. 4th, 1858, 

 to June 10th, 1864, as recorded by Sclater (P. Z. S. 

 1901, vol. i. pt. 2, p. 166). 



4. Ihe specimen in the museum at Tring, which lived in 



the Zoological Society's menagerie from May 15th, 

 1851, to July 7th, 1872 (figured P. Z. S. 1901, i. 

 pt. 2, p. 166, from life). 



5. ? Specimen purchased by the Zoological Society, Nov. 5th, 



1831, and mentioned in Waterhouse's Cat. of Mamm. 

 p. 37 (1838), and by Sclater, P. Z. S. 1901, i. pt. 2, 

 p. 165. This is, I suspect, the specimen from which 

 was drawn the text-figure on p. 8 of Cornwallis Harris's 

 ' Portraits of Game &c.,' 1840, which is stated to 

 have been taken from a specimen exhibited in the 

 Gardens. 



6. ? Specimen belonging to Lord Morton, reproduced from 



a drawing by Agasse in Prof. E wart's ' Penycuick 

 Experiments,' p. 65 (1899). 



Mr. Lydekker {I. c. p. 430), unless I misunderstand him, 

 socks to explain away the characters of this form as compared 



