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Show 1902.J QUAGGA OF THE VIENNA MUSEUM. 35 0'5 cm. only. This dorsal band is bordered on the pectoral region by longitudinal creamy spots, which become more confluent on the lumbar and sacral parts, forming at last continuous undulated lines which vary in breadth from 0-5 to L5 cm. A ventral band, beginning with a brownish shade on the fore breast, extends as a dark brown stripe to the umbilicus: its greatest width in the middle of the breast is about 8 cm., it narrows to 2 cm. on the belly. Fetlocks with blackish rings just above the hoofs. Ears creamy, brownish at the back in the base, dark clay-colour thence to the end, extreme tips white. Back of the nose nearly uniform clay-colour, between the nostrils dark brown ; lips whitish, chin and throat uniform chestnut. The dark striping is as follows :- Eight narrow lines run from between the eyes down to the back of the nose and up to the beginning of the mane ; from the middle of the front a ninth medial line runs to the back of the nose. From the eyebrows six stripes on each side pass to the top of the head. From the inner corner and lower lid of each eye three indistinct stripes pass towards the nose. On the cheeks upwards from the corner of the mouth are five streaks more or less curved. Next to them four others on each jaw, of which the first makes an angle towards the eye, turning then upwards to the base of ear ; while the next -two run more directly in this direction, and the fourth embraces the base of ear, ending behind it at the mane. The 2nd and 3rd of these stripes are divided on the left side, the 6th on this side corresponding to the 4th on the right side. The lateral spots or lines are well marked in figures iv., vii., and viii. only. Edwards's figure (i.) has white along the sides of the spinal band with black spots on it. This is said to be not present in the young specimen at Cape Town. These black rings are not to be seen in figures i., ii., iii., iv., and vi., besides being indistinct in others (x.), but they appear on the photograph (fig. xi.). White tips are not observable on fig. ix. The back of the nose is apparently dark in figures iv., vi., vii., viii. The dark stripes of the head appear very different in the various figures. In fig. i. they are few in number and very narrow, and the interspaces are broad. 3* |