COMMON ZEBRA OR BONTE-QUAGGA 687 
master stallion generally acted as leader, when there was 
any leader. He would round up the mares and drive them 
whither he wished; and he would trot a few paces toward 
any strange object, leaving the herd behind and watching 
intently, with ears pricked forward. We have never been 
able to watch a herd of wild game close enough to tell 
whether the individuals all fall into an ordered system of 
precedence, as ranch cattle do, where gradually each steer, 
bull, or cow seems to accept its exact place with reference 
to its fellows. 
Key to the Races of quagga 
Dark stripes blackish or deep seal-brown; light stripes (ground-color) 
cream color or whitish without ochraceous suffusion 
Body size smaller, skull length usually less than 21 inches; light 
stripes whitish granti 
Body size large, skull length usually greater than 21 inches; light 
stripes cream color bohmi 
Dark stripes, seal-brown or bistre; light stripes darker than cream 
color, usually pale ochraceous-buff. Body size small, 
the skull length less than 20 inches cuninghamei 
Highland Quagga Zebra 
Equus quagga granti 
Native Names: Masai, ol-oitigo; Kikamba, nthai; Kikuyu, njagi; Acholi, 
lagware; Luganda, entulege. 
Equus burchelli granti DeWinton, 1896, Ann. & Mag. Hist., XVII, p. 319. 
Range. —The highlands of British East Africa west¬ 
ward through Uganda to the Edward Nyanza and north¬ 
ward on the east side of the Nile as far as the Mongolia 
district and the headwaters of the Sobat River northwest 
of Lake Rudolf, east to the eastern edge of the highland 
plateau down to an altitude of three thousand feet in Brit¬ 
ish East Africa, and north as far as the south bank of the 
Tana River; southern limits of range in German East 
Africa unknown. 
