. The Penycuik experiments. s m^ 3 > o .CO ^. > ^^ . en 2 13 P ^ .2- IS 2p 82 TELEGONY AND REVERSION. a general plan in their marking. I consider the Somalizebra (Fig. 21) the most primitive of all the zebras. Thisconclusion has been arrived at mainly from a compara-tive study of the markings of zebras. I have examined anumber of skins from Somaliland (one of which was awell-preserved and quite complete foetal skin), numerousBurchells zebra skins, several skins of the mountainzebra, and the Amsterdam, Leyden, London, and Edin-burgh quaggas. The chief difficulty in dealing with zebra
. The Penycuik experiments. s m^ 3 > o .CO ^. > ^^ . en 2 13 P ^ .2- IS 2p 82 TELEGONY AND REVERSION. a general plan in their marking. I consider the Somalizebra (Fig. 21) the most primitive of all the zebras. Thisconclusion has been arrived at mainly from a compara-tive study of the markings of zebras. I have examined anumber of skins from Somaliland (one of which was awell-preserved and quite complete foetal skin), numerousBurchells zebra skins, several skins of the mountainzebra, and the Amsterdam, Leyden, London, and Edin-burgh quaggas. The chief difficulty in dealing with zebras is to findpossible points of comparison in the marking of the dif-ferent species and varieties. In all the zebras there is,however, one very distinctive stripe, viz. the stripe whichtypically extends downwards from the withers to bifurcatesomewhere above the level of the shoulder-joint; onedivision proceeding forwards across the shoulder-joint, theother backwards behind the elbow.* This characteristicstripe I shall spea
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