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Title: The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Ridgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Cambridge, England : University Press
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Fig. 31. Skin of an unborn foal of Grants Zebra; Uganda-. and gridiron comes close to E. zebra, whilst E. joai^ (northbank of the Zambesi) which in some respects approaches E. zebraand E. grevyi, comes nearest to Crawshays race of E. burchelli.(13) The Burchell Group. Let us now return to thisgroup, which is found from the lakes of Equatorial Africa down ^ Lately described by Prof. Ewart (see Addenda). - The illustration is from a skin belonging to my friend Mrs J. Eoscoe,Cambridge. * See Addenda. Il) THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 65 to the Transvaal and Orange River, south of which it seemsnever to have ranged. (14) Chapmans Zebra (Equus burcJielli chapmani), firstdescribed by Mr Layard in 1865, is found throughout all the
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Fig. 32. Skin of young Grants Zebrai. vast area extending from Masailand (between the VictoriaNyanza and the east coast) down to the locality where it was 1 The illustration is from a block kindly lent me by Prof.Ewart.R. H. 5 66 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE (CH. first met by Chapman, in South Africa, about 200 miles inlandfrom Walwich Bay^ between the Botletle and the Zambesi.This variety is only distinguished from Burchells zebra byhaving its legs striped instead of plain (Fig. 36). ButMr T. E. Buckley^ writing of Chapmans zebra says that outof five of these animals shot in one herd there were individualsshowing variation of colour and marking from the yellow andchocolate stripes to the pure black and white, the stripes insome cases ceasing above the hock and in others being con-tinued distinctly down to the hoof. The true Burchell zebra(Equus hurchelli typicus) was first discovered by Burchell nearthe Orange River in southern Bechuanaland. It is still tobe met with along the northern and e

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