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QUAGGA OP THE VIENNA MUSEUM. 



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0'5 cm. only. This dorsal band is 

 bordered on the pectoral region by 

 longitudinal creamy spots, which 

 become more confluent on the 

 lumbar and sacral parts, forming 

 at last continuous undulated lines 

 which vary in breadth from 0*5 to 

 1"5 cm. 



A ventral hand, beginning with 

 a brownish shade on the fore breast, 

 extends as a dark brown stripe to 

 the umbilicus : its greatest width 

 in the middle of the breast is about 

 8 cm., it narrows to 2 cm. on the 

 belly. 



Fetlocks with blackish rings just 

 above the hoofs. Ears creamy, 

 brownish at the back in the base, 

 dark clay- colour thence to the 

 end, extreme tips white. 



Back of the nose nearly uniform 

 clay-colour, between the nostrils 

 dark brown ; lips whitish, chin and 

 throat uniform chestnut. 



The dark striping is as follows : — 

 Eight narrow lines run from be- 

 tween the eyes down to the back 

 of the nose and up to the begin- 

 ning of the mane ; from the middle 

 of the front a ninth medial line 

 runs to the back of the nose. 

 From the eyebrows six stripes on 

 each side pass to the top of the 

 head. From the inner corner and 

 lower lid of each eye three in- 

 distinct stripes pass towards the 

 nose. On the cheeks upwards 

 from the corner of the mouth are 

 five streaks more or less curved. 

 Next to them four others on each 

 jaw, of which the first makes an 

 angle towards the eye, turning 

 then upwards to the base of ear ; 

 while the next two run more 

 directly in this direction, and the 

 fourth embraces the base of ear, 

 ending behind it at the mane. 

 The 2nd and 3rd of these stripes 

 are divided on the left side, the 

 6th on this side corresponding to 

 the 4th on the right side. 



The lateral spots or lines are 

 well marked in figures iv., vii., and 

 viii. only. Edwards's figure (i.) has 

 white along the sides of the spinal 

 band with black spots on it. 



This is said to be not present in 

 the young specimen at Cape Town. 



These black rings are not to be 

 seen in figures i., ii., iii., iv., and vi., 

 besides being indistinct in others 

 (x.), but they appear on the photo- 

 graph (fig. xi.). White tips are not 

 observable on fig. ix. The back of 

 the nose is apparently dark in 

 figures iv., vi., vii., viii. 



The dark stripes of the head 

 appear very difierent in the various 

 figures. In fig. i. they are few in 

 number and very narrow, and the 

 interspaces are broad. 



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