BURCUELLS ZEBRA. 



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"fig. 102 is that of a stallion six years old, and text-fig. 103 is of 

 one about ten years of age. A little later I obtained the skins of 

 a mare and her foal killed at a spot less than ten miles from 

 Avhere I had shot the two stallions. The photographs of these are 

 reproduced as text-figs. 104 and 105. 



Text-fig. 105. 



"JJuvclioll's Zebra, S > foaJj train sovitli of the Sabi River, Eastern Transvaal. 



In the first stallion (text-fig. 102) both the ordinary and the 

 shadow stripings are exceptionally strong, and the former is con- 

 tinued down and nearly all round the legs to the pasterns, which 

 are quite black. The body stripes meet the ventral line thi'ough- 

 -out. The dorsal stripe is wide and very strongly marked. The 

 neck sti-ipes are exceptionally deep, and set very close together. 



In the second stallion (text-fig. lO.'i) the shadow striping is not 

 nearly so well defined and the black stripes also are n.-irrower 

 The body stripes do not extend all round the barrel, and there is 

 wnictically no connection between them and the not very distinct 



