420 MR. E. L. LAYARD ON A NEW ZEBRA. [May 9, 
distance from the waggons. I sketched from the skin and horns of 
the latter, and the legs and ears of the Quagga. This had been a 
smaller animal, but of stouter and more compact build than those 
hitherto seen. I have already mentioned those at the Salt-pan with 
decided markings on the legs below the knees and houghs, while the 
two described species are perfectly white; and now this animal, 
besides being stouter and shorter of limb, is more strongly marked, 
the colours being distinct and pure black and white, the black spread- 
ing almost half over the pastern-joint and fetlock, and having a small 
white edging between it and the hoofs ; the ears are strongly banded 
and slightly tinted with brown. I thought at first it might be a 
Zebra; but Chapman considered it a true Quagga, and I am inclined 
to think so too. 
“This was at Daka (lat. 18° 40'1'). After coming down off the 
elevated plain into the mountainous valley of the Zambesi system, 
we were encamped on one.of the spruils of the Luisi, the first run- 
ning water we had seen since leaving the Botletle River. 
«Thursday, 17th, Matietue River.—Chapman had shot a Quagga 
mare; and, hastening to the spot, I found an eager group of natives 
with difficulty restrained from rushing at once upon the prey. In 
this case we had to omit the measurement ; but I sketched the stripes 
carefully, and the camera of course cannot be gainsaid. The general 
colour was a yellowish or raw-sienna brown on the upper parts, and 
deepest on the rump, fading into white on the neck, belly, and legs ; 
the stripes were of the deepest brown or nearly black, and the dif- 
ference between this and the known varieties consisted in their being 
continued quite down to the hoof on all four legs, slightly fainter on 
the inside ; the belly was marked by a broad black band along the 
centre, to which all the side stripes were joined ; on the back was a 
similar black line, but only the stripes above the shoulder were con- 
nected with it; the mane was upright, as usual (the neck-stripes 
being continued vertically through it); the ears small and equine, 
and a bare spot (rather small) was observable on the inside of the 
fore legs only, the Zebra, I believe, having it on all four, as well as 
large ears. 
“T made two sketches of this, and Chapman two photographs. 
There are intermediate brown stripes between the black ones on the 
hind legs above the hough. 
“Saturday, July 19th.—We proceeded about a mile north-east 
by north, when, near the small conical hill on our left, Chapman 
brought down a fine young Quagga stallion of the same kind as 
the mare previously killed ; but age, I suppose, not having deepened 
the colours, its whole body was of the purest white, marked with 
jet-black bands down to every hoof, in the manner of the other, but 
slightly fainter on the inside of the legs, and also where the stripes 
of the sides joined to the longitudinal line of the belly, some of 
those on the flanks having these points so faintly marked that the 
junction could not be called complete ; like the other, a central stripe 
ran along the back, with which two or three of the shoulder-stripes 
(on each side) were connected, the broad stripes of the hinder parts 
