The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Fig. 33. Skin of a full-grown Grants Zebra; Uganda^ call it quagga. The typical Burchell zebra was also termedthe Bonte Quagga by Cornwallis Harris-, and Mr Lydekker^ 1 The illustration is from a skin in my own possession, the gift of my friendthe Rev. .J. Roseoe, well known for his ethnological studies in Uganda. - Portraits of the Game and Wild Aniniah of South Africa, Part i. (London,1840). Harris used the term Burchells Zebra both in the text and on the plate(p. 48) of his Wild Sports of Southern Africa (London, 1841). 3 Proc. Zool. Soc.
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Fig. 33. Skin of a full-grown Grants Zebra; Uganda^ call it quagga. The typical Burchell zebra was also termedthe Bonte Quagga by Cornwallis Harris-, and Mr Lydekker^ 1 The illustration is from a skin in my own possession, the gift of my friendthe Rev. .J. Roseoe, well known for his ethnological studies in Uganda. - Portraits of the Game and Wild Aniniah of South Africa, Part i. (London,1840). Harris used the term Burchells Zebra both in the text and on the plate(p. 48) of his Wild Sports of Southern Africa (London, 1841). 3 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, p. 428 n. 5—2 68 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. prefers the latter name. Mr Pocock^ regards the Burchell zebraor Bonte Quagga and Equus quagga as the same species, butto this point we shall presently revert. (15) Crawshays^ Zehra. (Equus hurchelli var, crawshayi),a variety found in the highlands of Nyassaland, west of LakeNyassa, is held by Prof Ewart to bridge over the supposedgap between the Burchell and the Mountain Zebra, and also. Fig. 34. Burchells Zebra (Grants Variety). shows in its colouring at least one point of contact with theSomali species. It is about 132 hands high, and in thegeneral disposition of its stripes closely resembles Chapmans 1 Ann. Mag. Nat. HUt. ser. 7, Vol. x. (1902), p. 306; ibid. 1 Nov. 1904. 2 E. Crawshay, Proc. of Zoolog. Soc, 1895, p. 688. Mr Crawsbay procuredhis specimen in the Henga country three days of Deep Bay, Lake Nyassa. 2 Penycuik Experiments, p. 10. ] THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 69 zebra, but the dark stripes upon the haunches are about thesame breadth as, or are slightly wider than, the interveninglight spaces, and it shows no intermediate shadow stripeswhatever; the spot above the nostrils is bright tan colour; thestripes of the body are almost pure black (in this respectresembling both the Grevy and Mountain Zebras), whilst theground colour varies from nearly pure white (as in the Grevyspecies) to nearly pale fawn, and there are
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