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of the plains of the Colony ; Equus grevyi, the Somaliland 

 Zebra ; and Equus burchelli, the Zebra of the plains, formerly 

 extending from the Orange River in the south to the borders of 

 Somaliland in the north ; this latter species the author divides 

 into seven sub-species, of these five are South African as 

 follows : — 



1. E. b. typicus from Bechuanaland, now possibly extinct, with 



no stripes on the quarters or legs except on the knees 

 and hocks. 



2. E. b. antiquorum from Damaraland, with broad stripes on 



the quarters, legs not or hardly striped below the knees 

 and hocks. 



3. E. b. tuahlbergi, subsp. nov., from Zululand, with body 



stripes meeting the ventral stripe, and with very strong 

 " shadow " stripes. 



4. E. b. chapmanni from between Damaraland and Matabele- 



land, with body stripes meeting the ventral stripe, and 

 with the stripes on the lower part of the legs showing a 

 distinct tendency to break up into irregular brown spots. 



5. E. b. selousi, subsp. nov., from Mashonaland, matches the 



last but with the outside of the legs strongly striped to 

 the hoof. 



de Winton, W. E. " On a New Mouse from Damaraland." Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xix., p. 349, 1897. 



de Winton, W. E. " On the Ochre-footed Scrub Squirrels of East 

 Africa." Ibid., p. 573. 



Thomas, 0. " On a New Dormouse from Mashonaland." Ibid, 

 p. 388. 



These three papers all deal with South African Rodents. In 

 the first one a Mouse obtained by Mr. C. J. Anderson in 

 Damaraland some years ago and identified by Mr. Thomas as 

 Mus silaceus, Wagn., is here shown to be an undescribed 

 species, and is named Mus damarensis. 



In the second paper it is shown that the little unstriped 

 Squirrel originally discovered and named by the late Sir 

 Andrew Smith, is not found north of the Zambesi, being re- 



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