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Show 36 DR. L. V. LORENZ ON THE [Jan. 14, These eight bands and the following two, or the homologues of them, are to be recognized in most of the figures, but they are in general narrower and the interspaces are broader. Fig. iii. comes in this respect nearest to our Quagga, and also does the colour. The stripes on the head and neck in figs. iv. and ix. are much darker. Edwards's Quagga (fig. i.) shows unusually narrow black bands on the neck and broad interspaces, just the contrary to our Quagga. On the neck there are eight transverse bands, their respective breadths being 2, 3-5, 4-5, 5"5, 5-5, 7, 5, and 3*5 on the right; 2*5, 3, 4-5, 6, 7-5, 9, 8, 4-5 on the left side. The first six of them keep more or less apart, while the seventh and eighth unite in front of the fore-neck. The light creamy interspaces on the neck are very narrow, 1 or 2 cm. only. From the withers there run first two stripes to the front of the breast, where they join ; they are rather narrow above and grow wider beneath. Then a single stripe that might be called a "shoulder-stripe " also takes its origin from the withers, and, passing the shoulders, divides into two branches on the humeral region. Inside the angle thus formed are some irregular and less distinct short stripes, of which four or five are directed obliquely upwards and partly unite with three others directed downwards and backwards. On the body there are seven other distinct bands getting more obsolete at the lower bifurcated ends, and confluent at last with the buff ground-colour of the flanks. Of these the first three connected with the longitudinal dorsal band have a breadth of from 6"5 to 8 and from 9 to 10 cm., the interspaces between them being 1 and 1*5 cm. The fourth of these bands sends an oblique branch to the croup, and thus encloses a triangular area of which the dorsal stripe forms a side. Within this there is another broad longitudinal stripe anastomosing twice or three times with the oblique one and also with the dorsal stripe. The triangles on both sides form The bifurcation of the shoulder-stripe is well seen in most of the figures except in fig. iv. These stripes are not represented in most of the figures. The vertical body-stripes are different in every figure. O n the whole they are narrower and more numerous, besides they do not extend to the haunches. These oblique stripes are not to be seen in some of the figures (iii., iv., and x.), in others there are spots in their places (figs. i. and vii.) The saddle is wanting in figs. i. |