1 62 NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS 



placed in a pen, next to some of the better known 

 Burchell zebras, the comparison was much to 

 their disadvantage, for though they were handsome 

 enough after their kind, the Burchells appeared 

 but as clumsy ponies when contrasted with this tall 

 and elegant creature, whilst the mountain zebra of 

 the Cape seemed little better than a striped jackass. 

 Many of the stripes of this second grevyi showed 

 the brownish tinge due to youth. President 

 Faure's pet was very tame, allowing me to stroke 

 her sleek sides like any horse, and was quite a 

 favourite with the Parisians. This animal is now 

 dead, and may be seen stuffed at the Jardin 

 d'Acclimatation. 



In 1899 the Emperor Menelik again sent 

 Equus grevyi to Europe : this time a pair of 

 animals as a present to Queen Victoria. They 

 were believed to be the only survivors of a herd 

 of twenty, which had been captured and brought 

 to Addis Abbeba. The zebras performed in safety 

 the long six weeks' march from Addis Abbeba to 

 the seaport of Zeila, and after being rested were 

 shipped for England, which they reached without 

 mishap. The male was an old animal, being 

 believed to be about twenty years of age : he died 

 suddenly after a few months in England, but the 

 female is still living in the London Zoo, and her 

 portrait will be found in this book. She resembles 

 the Paris specimen in the gentleness of her de- 



