4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6l 



Character. — Equus quagga cutting hamei is distinguishable from 

 granti by its darker ground color as represented by the light stripes 

 which are pale ochraceous-buff and the lighter color of its dark 

 stripes which are bister-brown instead of black. The skull differs 

 from that of granti by the shortness of the rostral portion and the 

 narrowness of the diastema between the cheek-teeth and the incisors 

 and also averages smaller in length with narrower palatal width and 

 wider lambdoidal crest. From bohmi of the Kilimanjaro district it 

 differs in color in the same way as from granti but is further dis- 

 tinguishable by its much smaller body size. 



Coloration of the Type. — The ground color as represented by the 

 light stripes is pale ochraceous-buff and shows considerable contrast 

 to the white belly and inner surface of the hindquarters. The dark 

 stripes are uniform bister-brown on the body but darken somewhat 

 on the head where they become seal-brown in conformity with the 

 seal-brown nose patch. The legs below the knees and hocks are 

 marked by lighter stripes than the body, being snuff-brown and fully 

 striped to the hoofs. The tail tuft of long hair is black with the 

 exception of the mixture of a few white hairs in the upper part. 

 The ears are cream-white marked on the back at the tip by a broad 

 area of bister-brown and another brown area near the base. The 

 mane is well-developed, the hair having a length of 6 inches with an 

 extent from the crown of the head to the shoulders and is striped 

 pale-buff and seal-brown in conformity to the stripes of the neck. 

 The body stripes are arranged quite as in granti or bohmi but there is 

 no indication of shadow stripes anywhere. The widest stripes are the 

 oblique ones crossing the hindquarters which have a width of 2^4 

 inches at their widest part. The body is crossed behind the shoulders 

 from the last neck stripe to the first oblique stripe by four transverse 

 stripes which completely encircle the body and join the longitudinal 

 ventral stripe. The neck is crossed by nine transverse stripes, the 

 anterior of which are narrow and a few of the posterior very wide. 

 The leg stripes are broken on the inner side on the upper part of the 

 legs, but below the knees and the hocks they completely encircle the 

 leg and on the lower part of the pasterns immediately above the hoof 

 they become fused into a solid dark band. 



Measurements. — The flesh measurements of the type were: head 

 and body, 1,950 mm. ; tail, 460 ; hindfoot, 500 ; ear, 170. Skull : great- 

 est length, 487; condylo-basal length, 450; greatest breadth, 175; 

 least interorbital width, no; rostral length from nasal-premaxillary 

 notch to tip of premaxilke, 136; least width of postorbital arch, 19; 



