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and when a careful examination was made^ it became 

 evident tliat in the number and arrangement of the 

 markings he was not unlike a Somali zebra. As Pig. 10 

 shows^ the brow has been tattooed as if to represent a huge 

 finger print. Instead of the four or five acutely pointed 

 frontal arches of his sire^ there are fourteen rounded 

 arches, that remind one of the face of the Somali zebra. 

 Instead of twelve cervical stripes, as in Matopo, there are in 

 Romulus twenty-four cervical stripes, all of which can be 



fiG. 10. 



Romulus : twenty-seven dajs old. 



traced into the mane. In having so many cervical stripes 

 he seems to be more primitive than even the Somali zebra 

 (in which I have never seen more than fourteen cervical 

 stripes), but closely agrees with one of my zebra mares 

 when the shadow stripes are included. The shoulder 

 stripe bifurcates higher up than in Matopo, and there are 

 seven indistinct arches in the triangular space below the 

 point of bifurcation. Behind the shoulder stripe there ai'e 



