ADDENDA 



A BOOK of the present nature must of necessity be to some extent out 

 of date even before it is published. In the present instance I have 

 been enabled to make the following additions as the text was passing 

 through the press. 



In June of the present year Sir E. G. Loder sent me the photo- 

 graph of a bonte-quagga shot in British East Africa which presents 

 some approximation to the markings characteristic of the Kilimanjaro 

 specimen in the Museum at Edinburgh to which the name Bonte- 

 of "Ward's zebra" has been given (see p. 65 of text). I Quagga. 

 was at the same time informed that this kind of zebra is exceedingly 

 common in British East Africa. From the presence of a distinct 

 " gridiron -pattern " and the alleged relatively large size of the ears, 

 Professor Ewart seems to have regarded " Ward's zebra " as more nearly 

 related to the true or mountain zebra than to the bonte-quagga. In 

 Sir E. G. Loder's specimen, as shown in the figure on next page, the 

 gridiron-pattern is much narrower than in the Edinburgh animal, and 

 the transverse bars are detached from the median dorsal stripe. I find, 

 moreover, that in the mounted specimen of the Kilimanjaro bonte- 

 quagga (Equus burcJielli boehmi) in the British Museum there occur 

 what may be regarded as vestiges of the gridiron -pattern, thus 

 indicating that Sir E. G. Loder's animal is not separable from that 

 race, whatever may be the case with regard to " Ward's zebra," which 

 apparently came from the same district. The presence of a gridiron- 

 pattern both in the Kilimanjaro bonte-quagga and in " Ward's zebra " 

 suggests that Equus zebra and E. burcJielli are derivates from an 

 ancestor that possessed this characteristic feature. 



On page 40 of the mammalian section of the recently published 

 Sjostedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Zf.tyW///0 (Upsala, 1908) Dr. E. Lonnberg 

 has separated the Kilimanjaro steinbok from the Nyasa T ne 

 Rhaphiceros cainpcstris mumanni (see p. 1 8 1 of text) on Kilimanjaro 

 account of the presence on the nose of a long triangular Steinbok. 

 brown patch, as in the typical Cape A', campestris. If the absence of 



