Zoological Society bulletin . outh of Lake The Kulan. Equus , east of the Caspian Sea. the Kirghez Steppes, and Turkestan. I The Onager, Bquus onaga, northwestern India and Persia. Wild Assks The Hemippus, Equus hemippus, northern Arabia and northwestern Persia. II lie Gour or Ghour. Equus , Rajpootana Desert. The Abyssinian ass, Equus asinus, Abyssinia and the Nubian Somali ass. Equus taeniopus, E. somalicus, eastern Somaliland. The Grevy zebra. Equus grevyi, southern Abyssinia. The Galla country and northern Somaliland. / Hie Grevy zebra, h>/u>>* grevyi, soutlier
Zoological Society bulletin . outh of Lake The Kulan. Equus , east of the Caspian Sea. the Kirghez Steppes, and Turkestan. I The Onager, Bquus onaga, northwestern India and Persia. Wild Assks The Hemippus, Equus hemippus, northern Arabia and northwestern Persia. II lie Gour or Ghour. Equus , Rajpootana Desert. The Abyssinian ass, Equus asinus, Abyssinia and the Nubian Somali ass. Equus taeniopus, E. somalicus, eastern Somaliland. The Grevy zebra. Equus grevyi, southern Abyssinia. The Galla country and northern Somaliland. / Hie Grevy zebra, h>/u>>* grevyi, soutliern AbyssiniaI Foas zebra, Equus fitai. near the Grants zebra, Equus grantl, „„, . Chapmans zebra. Equ us rhiipmnni, Matabeleland. /. l>,,.,.|„.||. ...I,.., C\ I : I Burchells zebra, Equus burcJielli, Betuans The Quagga, Equus quagga. Cape of Good Hope. Tin- Mountain zebra, Equus zebra, Capeof Good Hope, Equus hoffmanior Equus penricei, West Africa. 948 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY EXTREMELY MOUNTAIN ZEBRA, Equus zebra. the North to striping confined to the shouldersand anterior portion of the trunk in the Quaggaof the South. This fading out of the stripes,which affords a color transition between thesebrilliantly marked animals and the apparentlymonotonous color of the Przewalsky horse,affords strong ground for believing that all thehorses were originally striped. This beliefis strengthened by the fact that reversionalstriping occurs in all the dun colored horses onthe face, the limbs, and the shoulders, while themedium back stripe is found in the duns, baysand browns among the horses. The Mountain Zebra (Fig. 11) is the rarestanimal in our entire collection, because it isnow extinct throughout a large part of itsformer range and is carefully protected by theSouth African government in its remainingmountain fastnesses. Like the Grant zebra, itscolor bands are very broad and comparativelyfew in number, but it possesses a broad
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