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TELEGONY AND EEVERSION. 



(Fig. 24, F.S.). Between the slioulder and cronp stripes 

 in the skin figured (Fig. 24) there ai-e twenty-five stripes 

 running at nearly right angles to the dorsal stripe. But 

 as four of these are more or less forked at their origin, the 

 twenty-five probably represent at least twenty-nine vertical 



Fig. 20. 



Aiomitaiii Zebra (E. zebra). 



Stripes. Hence it may be inferred that m still more primi- 

 tive zebras there were numerous narrow not very well de- 

 fined stripes running vertically across the body between the 

 shoulder and croup stripes. As in the case of the shoulder 

 stripe, several arches (modified femoral stripes Fio- o , 



