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being also barred. The outsides of the ears have a white tip and 
a broad black mark occupying the greater part of the surface, but 
are white at the base. Perhaps the most constant and obvious 
distinction between this species and the next is the arrangement 
of the stripes on the hinder part of the back, where there are a 
number of short transverse bands passing from the median longi- 
tudinal dorsal stripe towards, and sometimes joining with, the 
uppermost of the broad stripes which run obliquely across the 
haunch from the flanks towards the root of the tail. There is often 
a median longitudinal stripe under the chest. 
Fic. 162.—Burchell’s Zebra (Equus burchelli). 
E. burchelli (Fig, 162) is a rather larger and more robust animal 
with smaller ears, a longer mane, and fuller tail. The general 
ground colour of the body is pale yellowish-brown, the limbs nearly 
white, the stripes dark brown or black. In the typical form they 
do not extend on to the limbs or the tail; but there is a great 
variation in this respect, even in animals of the same herd, some 
being striped quite down to the hoofs (this form has been named 
E. chapmani). There is a strongly marked median longitudinal 
ventral black stripe, to which the lower ends of the transverse side 
stripes are usually united, but the dorsal stripe (also strong] 
marked) is completely isolated in its posterior half, and the ee 
most of the broad haunch stripes runs nearly parallel to it. A 
much larger proportion of the ears is white than in the other 
species. In the middle of the wide intervals between the broad 
