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meat of this zebra is highly prized by the Somali tribes of the districts 

 it inhabits ; the flesh is excellent, rather better, in fact, than any 

 antelope-venison except oryx, and tasting somewhat like beef 



Fig. 17. — A Dead Grevy's Zebra, photographed liy Lord Delamere. 



Although the species was unknown in Europe in modern times till 

 1882, it appears that a specimen was sent in the seventeenth century 

 by the King of Abyssinia to the Governor of Batavia, and a second 



Fig. 18. — A Herd of Grevy's Zebras, photographed by Lord Delamere near Lake Rudolf. 



to the Sultan of Turkey ; and it was probably this zebra that was 

 occasionally exhibited in the Roman amphitheatre under the name 

 of Jiippotigris. 



Mr. Neumann remarks that while the cry of the bonte-quagga is a 

 succession of melodious barks in double or triple notes, that of Grevy's 



