COMMON ZEBRA OR BONTE-QUAGGA 697 
dication of shadow stripes anywhere. The widest stripes 
are the oblique ones crossing the hind quarters, which have 
a width of 2^ inches at their widest part. The body is 
crossed behind the shoulders from the last neck stripe to 
the first oblique stripe by four transverse stripes, which 
completely encircle the body and join the longitudinal ven¬ 
tral stripe. The neck is crossed by nine transverse stripes, 
the anterior of which are narrow and a few of the posterior 
very wide. The leg stripes are broken on the inner side on 
the upper part of the legs, but below the knees and the 
hocks they completely encircle the legs, and on the lower 
part of the pasterns, immediately above the hoof, they 
usually become fused into a solid dark band. 
There is in addition to the type skin at the National 
Museum another skin of the same age taken at the same 
time. This latter specimen is quite identical in color with 
the type. Specimens of granti of the same age from the 
Athi Plains differ from the type by their whitish ground- 
color and dark stripes which are seal-brown in color. The 
stripes of the old adults of cuninghamei , however, as observed 
in the live specimens in the field, are somewhat darker than 
the type but are never deep black as in granti. The lighter 
color of the dark stripes is no doubt due to the arid condi¬ 
tions and intense heat and sunlight to which the Northern 
Guaso Nyiro race is subject. Cuninghamei is a desert race 
occupying the Northern Guaso Nyiro watershed from its 
formation by the Guaso Narok and Guaso Nyuki Rivers 
eastward to its termination in the Lorian swamp. North¬ 
ward the race reaches at least as far as the northern slopes 
of the Lorogi Mountains. The quagga zebras occurring 
along the east shore of Lake Rudolf may be jollee, the 
Abyssinian race, which was described by Camerano from 
the Rift Valley of central Abyssinia. 
A fully adult male from Archer’s Post, Northern Guaso 
Nyiro River, had the following flesh measurements: head 
and body, 75 inches; tail, 18 inches; hind foot, 20 inches; 
ear, 6^ inches. These flesh measurement are considerably 
less than adult males of the highland quagga. 
