418 MR. E. L, LAYARD ON A NEW ZEBRA. [May 9, 
white. In older specimens the brush is black, with a few white hairs 
intermixed. It has a head band traversing the middle of the belly, 
from which the transverse bands diverge alternately. - The stripes 
are of a very deep rich brown, nearly black ; while the ground-colour 
is raw sienna on the upper parts (back, rump, sides, &c.), but gra- 
dually fading into white on the lower parts. It has an erect mane 
of alternate bands of white and black, edged with brown. The ears 
are white, with a dark band near the tip and broader band at the 
base. The muzzle is grey or lead-coloured, and behind the nostrils 
a brown coffee-colour. It has a bare spot on all four fetlocks, with 
a brown crescent-shaped spot on either side of it. A bare patch above 
the knee, on the inside of each fore leg. The pastern joints are brown, 
excepting at the back, where it is divided vertically by a white line 
from fetlock to hoof. The ears are decidedly equine. The mane is 
6 inches long on the back; commencing from about 4 inches down 
the forehead, extends to the length of 23 feet down the back. The 
markings of it are continuations of the transverse lines which cross 
the back. The white bands on the mane are quite superficial, the 
hair underneath being actually black, edged with brown. Length of 
ears 6 inches. The head measures 2 feet from the top of the skull 
to the point of upper lip. From the root of the mane on the fore- 
head and from top of forehead narrow lines of white and black (the 
latter sometimes streaked with brown in the middle) diverge in a 
triangular manner towards the eyes, where the outside lines, making 
an angle, continue down the face, drawing closer towards the extre- 
mity of the face (the inside lines being straight), where they blend 
and form a dark brown patch behind and above the nostrils, the 
muzzle and the lips being grey. Broader bands emanate from this 
dark muzzle, and cross the chest in a crescent shape, leaving a white 
margin around the eyes, behind which the regularity of the lines is 
interrupted by those of the neck ; and the space from below the eye 
is filled up with markings of a hieroglyphical character. The stripes 
under the chin are light brown. The circumference of the neck is 
2 feet. The dorsal line extends to the brush of the tail, which is of 
a dark grey; and on the base of the tail, which is white, it becomes 
narrower, and is dotted all the way down on either side with spots of 
black, edged with brown. The form of the tail approaches nearer to 
that of the Horse in the largeness of the brush than the Zebra or the 
Ass ; but it is still not exactly like a Horse’s tail. On the thighs 
the stripes are alternately pale brown and deep brown, horizontal, but 
curving and forming a right-angled triangle on the flank ; and an 
acute and more perfect triangle is formed on the shoulder-blades b 
the junction there of the stripes from the neck and breast with the 
transverse stripes. A longitudinal dark band traverses the whole 
length of the belly, becoming narrower and deeper on the breast, 
around which it winds and continues, forming one of the oblique lines, 
to the centre of the shoulder-blades. From out of this ventral line 
diverge the transverse lines tending towards the dorsal line, but not 
connected therewith. On the legs the stripes gradually assume a 
horizontal direction from the top downwards, but continuing the ob- 
