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striped hinder parts is bright brown (' hellbraun,' ' brun clair'). 

 There is a broad dorsal stripe of a deep maroon (' dunckel 

 kastanienbraun ') colour, bordered on each side by a small stripe 

 of yellowish white (' gelblichweiss,' ' blanche- jaunatre ') colour. 

 The hair of the tail is bright cream (' hell creme '). The under- 

 parts of the body are of a ' creme-blanchatre' colour, so also are 

 the legs, but getting darker towards the feet." 



This new specimen has a peculiar interest, for it differs from all 

 the others known, and may serve to bridge over the gulf between 

 the Quaggas of Cape Colony and the Burchell Zebras. 



Text-fig. 156. 



JS. bitrchelli (Paris) ; north of Cape Colony (about 1820). 



Mr. Pocock has well pointed out that the current desci"iptions 

 of the Quagga are made up by blending together animals of 

 different types, whilst he and Mr. Lydekker have suggested that 

 the Quaggas figured by Edwards (text-fig. 173, p. 582), by Harris 

 (text-fig. 180, p. 586), and Hamilton Smith (text-fig. 178), may 

 be subspecifically distinct from the one photographed by York (text- 

 fig. 164, p. 575), the last known living example of its i^ace, which 

 survived in the Zoological Gardens until 1872. Mr. Lydekker 

 ('Science Progress,' 1902, pp. 220-2) proposed names for two 

 new subspecies. (!)-£'. quagga greyi, under which fall the British 



