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DR. L. V. LORENZ ON THE 



[Jan. 14, 



On the neck there are eight 

 transverse bands, their respective 

 breadths being 2, 3"5, 4-5, 5*5, 5*5, 

 7, 5, and 3'5 on the right ; 2-5, 3, 

 4-5, 6, 7-5, 9, 8, 4-5 on the left 

 side. The first six of them keep 

 more or less apart, while the seventh 

 and eighth unite in front of the 

 fore-neck. The light creamy inter- 

 spaces on the neck are very narrow, 

 1 or 2 cm. only. 



From the withers there run first 

 two stripes to the front of the 

 breast, where they join ; they are 

 rather narrow above and grow 

 wider beneath. Then a single stripe 

 that might be called a " shoidder- 

 stripe" also takes its origin from the 

 withers, and, passing the shoulders, 

 divides into two branches on the 

 humeral region. Inside the angle 

 thus formed are some irregular 

 and less distinct short stripes, 

 of which four or five are directed 

 obliquely upwards and partly 

 unite with three others directed 

 downwai"ds and backwards. On 

 the body there are seven other 

 distinct bands getting more obso- 

 lete at the lower bifurcated ends, 

 and confluent at last with the bufi" 

 ground-colour of the flanks. Of 

 these the first three connected 

 with the longitudinal dorsal band 

 have a breadth of from 6"5 to 8 and 

 from 9 to 10 cm., the interspaces 

 between them being 1 and 1'5 cm. 

 The fourth of these bands sends 

 an oblique branch to the croup, 

 and thus encloses a triangular 

 area of which the dorsal stripe 

 forms a side. Within this there 

 is another broad longitudinal stripe 

 anastomosing twice or three times 

 with the oblique one and also with 

 the dorsal stripe. 



The triangles on both sides form 



These eight bands and the fol- 

 lowing two, or the homologues of 

 them, are to be recognized in most 

 of the figures, but they are in 

 general narrower and the inter- 

 spaces are broader. Fig. iii. comes 

 in this respect nearest to our 

 Quagga, and also does the colour. 

 The stripes on the head and neck 

 in figs. iv. and ix. are much darker. 

 Edwards's Quagga (fig. i.) shows 

 unusually narrow black bands on 

 the neck and broad interspaces, just 

 the contrary to our Quagga. 



The bifurcation of the shoulder- 

 stripe is well seen in most of the 

 figures except in fig. iv. 



These stripes are not repre- 

 sented in most of the figures. 



The vertical body-stripes are 

 difierent in every figure. On the 

 whole they are nari'ower and more 

 numerous, besides they do not ex- 

 tend to the haunches. 



These oblique stripes are not to 

 be seen in some of the figures (iii., 

 iv., and x.), in others there are 

 spots in their places (figs. i. and 

 vii.) 



The saddle is wanting in figs. i. 



