THE GREW ZEBRA l6l 



great pains were taken in mounting it, the body- 

 being carefully measured, while plaster casts were 

 taken of the face, shoulders, pelvis, and feet. All 

 the bones were retained as a foundation for the 

 stuffed skin, except the skull, which is now in the 

 Museum of Comparative Anatomy. A figure of 

 the new zebra appeared in several scientific publi- 

 cations, and caused a considerable amount of dis- 

 cussion : for while some naturalists followed Milne 

 Edwards in considering it a distinct species, 

 others asserted that it was nothing more than a 

 large variety of the mountain zebra, a theory to 

 which its asinine head and ears and peculiar 

 striping at first lent some colour. The setting up 

 of the Paris specimen was also subjected to 

 adverse criticism, the great length of the face as 

 represented in the dried skin not being then 

 recognised as a normal condition. 



The judgment of M. Milne Edwards was, how- 

 ever, triumphantly vindicated by the subsequent 

 arrival in Europe of a considerable number of 

 zebra hides, all of which were alike, and resembled 

 the type specimen in the Jardin des Plantes 

 Museum, so that Equus grevyi was definitely 

 established as a true species. A second living 

 specimen — a young mare — reached Paris in Sep- 

 tember, 1898, being a present from the Emperor 

 Menelik to President Faure, who gave the animal 

 to the Jardin d'Acclimatation. When she was duly 



