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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
as in the males. These figures are based on the measure¬ 
ments of some fifty specimens of adults in the National 
Museum. The skulls of females average an inch less in 
actual length than those of males, but in the living animals 
the two sexes appear quite indistinguishable in size, and 
flesh measurements show them to be very nearly equal. 
The largest-skulled male zebra in the series at the National 
Museum is one having a length of 2 i }4 inches, shot by 
Colonel Roosevelt on the Loita Plains. This one measured, 
in the flesh: head and body, 87 inches; tail, 16 inches; 
hind foot, 22 inches; ear, 8 inches. A very large female 
from the Kapiti Plains nearly equals these dimensions in the 
flesh, the chief differences being in the length of the hind 
foot, which is ^ of an inch less than in the male. The tail 
of this specimen is somewhat longer than that of the male, 
being 18 inches, which is the usual tail length of the race. 
At the National Museum a large series of skins and skulls 
have been examined from the Kapiti, Athi, and Loita Plains, 
Lakes Naivasha and Baringo, Laikipia and Uasin Gishu 
Plateaux. Others have been examined in the British 
Museum from the Rift Valley of British East Africa and 
the Athi Plains. 
The highland quagga zebra occurs wide-spread through¬ 
out British and German East Africa, except in the low 
coast country and in the northern deserts, where it is repre¬ 
sented by other races. In Uganda, however, it is much 
less abundant, owing to the growths of tall elephant-grass 
which cover much of the plains country and make the 
region unsuitable for open-plains game such as zebras. In 
places where open plains of short grass are to be found the 
zebra is found in small numbers. They occur in such dis¬ 
tricts near the Maanja River west of Kampala, and on the 
German border in the highlands of Ankole. Northward 
from Mount Elgon they are found over the highlands as 
far as the Soudan station of Mongolia where they reach 
their extreme northern limit in the immediate vicinity of 
the Nile, which stands as a barrier to their westward ex¬ 
tension. On the headwaters of the Sobat River they occur 
somewhat farther northeast, and here they reach their ex¬ 
treme northern limit. In this region they have been re¬ 
ported by but one sportsman, William N. McMillan, who 
