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MAJOR J. STEVENSON-HAMILTON ON 



even herd. The shadow stripes on the neck, said to he dis- 

 tinctive of E. b. iransiiaalensis, have been occasionally, but very 

 rarely, noticed in individuals, and I cannot conceive their presence 

 to be more than an individual eccentricity, occasionally perhaps 

 ti'ansmitted to offspring, but by no means constant. 



Text-liii'. 10-1. 



Burchell's Zebra, $ , eight years old, from south of the Sabi Eivev, 

 Eastern Transvaal. 



During the year 1911 I was asked to obtain a couple of skins 

 for the Transvaal Museum, and selected two stallions from the 

 same herd at a point a few miles south of the Sabi River (roughly 

 25 degrees S. lat. by 31 E. long.). I chose them merely as being 

 typical of the darker and lighter forms of striping respectively, 

 neither of them being in any way exceptional. Some animals 

 present displayed deeper striping than the specimen shown in 

 text-fig. 102, while others showed more white than that in text- 

 fig. 103. These figures are from photographs of the skins. Text- 



