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THE PENYCUIK EXPEKIMENTS. 



ventral mesial band which blended with the dark body 

 colour at each side. When the markings of the hybrid 

 are carefully contrasted with the stripes in the Burchell 

 group of zebras, they will be found to differ very con- 

 siderably, more especially in the head region and over the 

 loins and hind quarters. In the meantime I shall content 

 myself with shortly describing the disposition of the 

 stripes in the hybrid. The forehead is characterised by 

 having- a remarkable series of dark brown narrow bands, 



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Romulus, twenty-seven days old. 



which alternate with a corresponding series of equnlly 

 narrow orange-coloured bands. Beginning on a level with 

 the eyes these bands extend upwards, forming a nnml^er 

 of graceful arches (Fig. 5) which at once remind one 

 of the forehead of an elaboratelj' tattooed Maori chief. 

 Fourteen pairs of these bands can easily be made out, but 

 the upper ones are interrupted by the tuft of hair which I 

 have named the frontal tuft. Curvino- downwards from 



