Excerpt from Supplement to the Game Animals of Africa
In 1911, Mr. R. B. Woosnam, Game Warden of the East African Protectorate, sent home a photograph of the skin of a Grant's bonteqnagga in which a saddle-shaped patch on the hind part of the back is devoid of stripes. This unstriped area is situated just where the longitudinal stripes of the hind-quarters pass into the transverse stripes of the back, and occupies about half the interval between that point and the withers. The dorsal stripes arc continued through it, and below it the belly-stripes have the normal development. In colour the pale unstriped area is dirty white. The animal, which is adult, was killed near Nakuru, and a few days later a second, but half-grown individual with a similar uniformly coloured area, was shot in the same place. Mr. Woosnam states that the natives arc well acquainted with such abnormally coloured zebras, of which for many years there have been one or two among the herds, but never more. In Nature, vol. Ixxxvi. p. 241, 190!, Professor Ridgeway proposed the name E. burchelli goldfinchi for these zebras which are, however, nothing more than abnormalities.
On page 97 of vol. xxiii. of the Memoirs of the Linncan Society of Normandy, 1910, Messrs. Brasil and I'enneticr described a bontc-quagga as II. burchelli pococki. The specimen on which this determination is based is a stallion in the natural history museum at Rouen, obtained in 1SS2 from the menagerie of one Pczon. Nothing is known of its previous history, although from the type of marking it may be considered certain that it came from southern Africa. In the almost complete absence of barring on the limbs it agrees with the typical E. burchelli, but the shoulders and quarters arc completely striped, and the body-stripes are continued downwards to join the longitudinal ventral stripe. In the latter respect the race resembles the Zulu E. b. zoahlbergi, in which the legs are barred to some distance below the knees and hocks. The ground-colour of the coat is cream instead of white, as in the typical burchelli. Its describcrs consider that 11. b. pococki is extinct, and to a considerable extent intermediate between E. b. typieus on the one hand and E. b. Chapman and E. b. wahlbergi on the other.
In the Field for 1909, vol. cxiv. p. SS9, Mr. l'ocock has given reasons for considering the so-called Ward's zebra (supra, p. 65) as a hybrid, born in Messrs. Barnum and Bailie's Menagerie, between the typical zebra and Chapman's bontc-quagga. This so-called species, to which Professor Ridgway inadvertently gave the technical name of E. zoardi in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1909. P. 79s. must accordingly disappear.
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