ZEBRA-HORSE HYBRIDS. 



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Figs. 7 and 8. Fig. 8 shows a series of pointed brow 

 arches, some of which end in a frontal tuft nearly two 

 inches in lengtli. Continuous with the frontal stripes are 

 a number of vertical stripes. These stripes extend to the 

 muzzle, the dark skin of which is sparsely covered with 

 short light hairs, except above the nostril, where there are 



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ill-defined dark brown "nostril patches." There is usually 

 a distinct shoulder stripe in zebras, passing downwards from 

 the withers to bifurcate about the level of the shoulder- joint. 

 In Fig. 8 the right shoulder stripe is seen to be double, 

 while in Fig. 7 the two shoulder-stripes have united for 

 some distance. Between the shoulder stripe and the occi- 



