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Title: On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929
Subjects: Hunting -- Africa, British East Birds -- Africa, British East Africa, British East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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The further south it is found the lesscomplete becomes the striping of the zebra. In thetypical Equus hurcheUi of Cape Colony (now probablyextinct) this striping was confined to the body only, the ^ I notice that Mr. F. C. Selous refers to this East-African form(in lit.) as E. granti. 5 J 3 3 3, 11 3 13 11 3 3 1 1 11111 1 1 ,•,, 1 1 1 1 1 , 1 , 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 l l 1, 11 llllll Il, l^lll.
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-5-^^ • • .• • ». . •. ENDERIT PJVER AND LAKE NAKURU 21 legs being plain white; and of the legs of two pairs ofzebra that 1 shot in the Transvaal and happened to keep,one is almost pure white from the knee downwards, thesecond pair being striped to the pasterns. In A Breathfrom the Veld Mr. J. G. Millais shows all his zebra, shotin Mashonaland, with plain white legs. Again, in thetrue quagga (E. quagga—long since exterminated) thestriping, half obsolete at best, was confined to the head,neck and shoulders only. This was the southernmostform of all. It seems obvious that in this case systematists havehad the bad luck to begin at the wrong end of theranoe. since it is from the north that the true aboriginaltype of zebra has come, dispersing thence southwards.The laro-est and handsomest zebra of all—a trulv dis-tiuct species—E. grevi/i, is still restricted to the northof the equator; while the southernmost form, typifiedas true Burchells, is really a mere degenerate vari

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