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in Central Ogaden, between the Tug Fafan and the 

 Webbe, about tliree hundred miles inland from Ber- 



bera, and shot seven specimens This zebra is 



very common in the territory of the Rer Aiiiiiden and 

 Malingur tribes. The country there is covered with 

 scattered bush over its entire surface, which is stonv 

 and much broken up by ra\ines, the gener.il elevation 

 being about two thousand five hundred feet above the 

 sea-level. The zebras which I saw (probably not more 

 than two hundred in all) were in small droves of about 

 half a dozen each, on the low plateaux covered with 

 scattered thorn-bush and glades of t/ttra-grass, the soil 

 being powdery and red in colour, with an occasional 



Rurchell's zebra in great herds among the mountains 

 of the Boran country, but no Gicvy's zebra until Lake 

 Stephanie is reached. Here you lind the ranges of the 

 two species overlapping to a certain extent, but about 

 Lake Rudolph I met oni\' with Gn'vy's zebra." 



It is probable, therefore, that the (iirvy's zebras 

 l)r(night from Abyssinia wi-i-e oijl.iincd from tin- 

 country north of l.ake Rudolph. 



The Grdvy's zebras exhibited in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens have been altogether six in number. 

 The first p;iir, which were presented to (Jueen X'ictoria 

 by the Emperor Meneiek, arrived on .August 14, iSgg. 

 The ICmpcror subse(|uently sent two females of the 



(jrevy's Zebra. 



{From an Adult Fciiitile in the GarJens of the Zoological Society of I.onilnn.) 



outcrop of rocks. In this sort of country they are 

 very easy to stalk. I saw none in the flats of the 

 Webbe valley, and they never come so far north as the 

 open grass plains of the Haud, Durhi, south of the 

 Fiifan, being, I think, their northern limit." 



.About the range of Grevy's zebra on the Abyssinian 

 side, and whence the living animals sent to Europe bv 

 the Emperor Menelek were obtained, we have no such 

 exact information. In 1895 the well-known American 

 traveller, Dr. Donaldson Smith, gave us the following 

 account of the distribution of Gievy's zebra so far as 

 he was accjuainted with it : — 



" Commencing 20 miles east of the .Shebeli River, 

 the range of Grevy's zebra extends about 120 miles to 

 the west ; it is limited by the second and eighth degrees 

 of latitude. On passing the Juba River you find 



same zebra to King l^dward, which were placed under 

 the Society's care on July 12, 1902, and in the follow- 

 ing year a fine young pair was presented to the .Societv 

 by Lieut.-Col. Sir j. L. Harrington, K.C.B., H.M.'s 

 1-Lnvoy at the .Abyssinian Court Both the males have 

 been unfortunately lost, and the present stock in (he 

 Society's Gardens consists of females only. There are 

 also one or more females of Grevy's zebra in M.G. the 

 Duke of Bedford's menagerie at Wohurn. 



The form of the group of Burchell's zebras that 

 extends furthest nf)rth, and is probably that which Dr. 

 Donaldson .Smith alludes to as in some places " over- 

 lapping the range " of Grevy's zebra is commonly 

 called Grant's zebra (Eqtius grantt). There is one 

 example of this zebra also in the Zoological .Society's 

 Gardens at the present time. 



