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a mature true zebra captured in the wild state, and 

 for this reason it is a curiosity. As a most faithful 

 presentment of a fine specimen of an animal, always 

 somewhat rare, and extremely difficult of capture, and 

 now fast disappearing from Southern Africa, it is 

 doubly interesting. I have to thank Mr. H. Roe, of 

 Graaff Reinet, for his permission to reproduce this 

 excellent likeness. Dr. Sclater, Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society, was good enough to show me, a 

 short time back, some photographs of zebras, from 

 the collections of his own and various foreign societies. 

 In one of the latter, I noticed with interest a portrait 

 of a new variety of the true zebra, obtained from 

 Shoa, North Africa, in 1882. This animal, mentioned 

 in the proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1882, 

 was sent alive by King Menelek of Shoa, as a present 

 to President Grevy, of the French Republic, and for 

 a short time lived in the Jardin des Plantes. 

 Although in some points, and especially in its 

 markings, different from the true zebra of South 

 Africa, it is, I think, undoubtedly a variety of Equus 

 zebra. In this animal, the markings are finer and 

 closer together than in the South African zebra, and 

 in place of the broad horizontal bands running 

 across the rump and thighs to the flank and ribs, so 

 noticeable in the picture of the Sneeuwberg zebra, 

 the stripes are much thinner and finer, and, indeed, 

 vary but little from the other markings of the 

 body. 



A glance at the photograph of this new variety, 

 gives one the impression that the stripes are all but 

 absolutely even in width over the whole of the body. 

 The nose of Equus Grevyii is longer, more Roman in 

 type, and altogether uglier than in the South African 



