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legs being plain white; and of the legs of two pairs of 
zebra that 1 shot in the Transvaal and happened to keep, 
one is almost pure white from the knee downwards, the 
second pair being striped to the pasterns. In A Breath 
from the Velcl Mr. J. G. Millais shows all his zebra, shot 
in Mashonaland, with plain white legs. Again, in the 
true quagga ( E . quagga —long since exterminated) the 
striping, half obsolete at best, was confined to the head, 
neck and shoulders only. This was the southernmost 
form of all. 
It seems obvious that in this case systematists have 
had the bad luck to begin at the wrong end of the 
range, since it is from the north that the true aboriginal 
type of zebra has come, dispersing thence southwards. 
The largest and handsomest zebra of all—a truly dis¬ 
tinct species— E. grevyi , is still restricted to the north 
of the equator; while the southernmost form, typified 
as true Burchell’s, is really a mere degenerate variation 
of the original, heavily-striped type, E. chapmani. 
Personally I am no advocate for splitting species merely 
on such grounds as colour-variation, and am not even 
prejudiced by the claims of a namesake! 
During our first week’s shooting at this charming 
spot we obtained good specimens of most of the local 
game, and the pile of horned heads and pegged-out skins 
behind our tents made an imposing show. The harte- 
beests, however, had so far defied our efforts; they were 
in fair numbers, but excessively wild, and the open 
plain lent no assistance. Rarely do these large and 
handsome antelopes trust themselves within forest or 
bush, and, even if found therein, keep constantly on the 
move, as though ever conscious of the dangers lurking 
within covert. One evening (July 27), when my brother 
and I had gone out together, we descried a dozen 
hongoni feeding by the rushy foreshores of Lake 
Nakuru, between the water and the forest-belt that 
fringes it. While engaged on this stalk, I espied 
beneath the trees on my right an animal that com¬ 
pletely puzzled me. It was a great shaggy beast, very 
