1909.] 



UNRECORDED SPECIMENS OF THE QUAGGA. 



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type of E. quagga greyi in the British Museum, that is to say, the 

 stripes are dark brown, the interspaces paler creamy brown, the 

 belly and legs whitish with a dark rim above the hoofs and dark hair 

 at the back of the fetlocks. The stripes on the neck are moderately 

 broad and some of them at least are double. The lower half of 

 the shoulder is unstriped ; and on the anterior portion of the body 

 behind the shoulders the stripes are short, but posteriorly they 

 become progressively longer and retain their distinctness as far 

 back as the hind-quarters, exhibiting most clearly in the posterior 



Text-fig. 159. 



The Tring Quagga. 



half of the body the backward inclination so characteristic of so- 

 called Zebras of the Burchelline group. The last long stripe that 

 is visible slopes backwards from a point a little in front of the 

 stifle-joint towards the root of the tail, and appears to represent 

 the stripe in a specimen of Chapman's Quagga which Pi"of . Ewart 

 called the "intermediate flank stripe." Below this the hind- 

 quarters seem to show traces of at least one abbreviated stripe, 

 recalling the abbreviated stripes on this area in typical E. quagga 

 hurchelli. 



" It is the persistence and distinctness of both the vertical and 

 oblique stripes on the body that make the Tring Quagga excep- 

 tionally interesting. In these particulars, coupled with the width 



