COMMON ZEBRA OR BONTE-QUAGGA 693 
met with zebra in the plateau region of the Boma country 
at the head of the Kaia River, a tributary of the Sobat. 
Some distance east of this region, in this extreme northeast 
corner of their range, they meet the Abyssinian form of the 
quagga, jollce , in the valley of the Omo River. 
Kilimanjaro Quagga Zebra 
Equus quagga bohmi 
Native Names: Swahili, punda milia; Duruma 9 form. 
Equus bohmi Matschie, 1892, Sitz.-Ber. Nat. Freu., Berlin, p. 131. 
Range.— Lowlands of the coast drainage from three 
thousand feet to sea-level, north in British East Africa as 
far as the south bank of the Tana River, and inland to the 
limits of the desert nyika zone; limits of range southward 
in German East Africa unknown. 
The zebra is known to the Swahili as punda milia, or 
striped donkey, and this name has been carried through the 
length and breadth of East Africa by the Swahili porters. 
The name is being constantly impressed on the minds of 
sportsmen by the insistent porter, whose stomach is always 
demanding zebra meat. Punda milia has thus become as 
familiar a term for the zebra to the European traveller in 
East Africa as quagga is to his cousins in South Africa. 
The coast race of the quagga zebra was described by Mat¬ 
schie in 1892 from a skin collected by Herr Kuhnert on the 
Pangani River south of Kilimanjaro and partly from a 
painting by Richard Bohm for whom the species was named. 
The original skin is now in the Berlin Museum, where it 
has been examined by Heller. It is a flat skin lacking the 
head and the feet. Faint shadow stripes occur between 
the broad stripes on the hind quarters but they are not 
well marked. Undue emphasis has been placed on the 
presence of shadow stripes in this race owing to their presence 
in the type, but they are really a variable feature and are 
of no racial significance. The type happens to be so marked, 
but specimens from Kilimanjaro lack the shadow stripes 
in at least fifty per cent of the individuals, and we have no 
doubt that the actual occurrence of shadow stripes will be 
found, upon the examination of a larger number of skins, to 
be a very much less per cent. A mounted specimen from 
