CHAPTEE VII. 

 GEEVY'S ZEBRA. 



(Equus grevyi.) 



Our first knowledge of this animal dates from 1882. On 

 December 19tli in tliat year Mr. P, L. Sclater exhibited, at 

 the meeting of the Zoological Society_, photographs of a 

 zebra, recently living in the Jardin des Plaates, Paris, 

 which he had received from M. A. Milne-Edwards, and he 

 pointed out the differences that he considered separated 

 this animal from the common or mountain zebra. At that 

 time a single specimen of the species had been sent alive 

 by King Menelek of Shoa to the President of the French 



'- Republic, but it unfortunately died after a short residence 



I in the Zoological Grardens at Paris. 



I This animal is doubtless identical with that common 



-" in Somali-land, described by Dr. Emin Bey as existing* 

 in large numbers in Lattako. This naturalist, however, 

 identified it with the ordinary Equus zebra. 



Eight years afterwards, that is in 1890, Mr. Sclater 

 exhibited, at the Zoological Society, a skin of this zebra, 

 which was received from northern Somali-land, and 

 said : 



" I have recently again examined the typical example of this 

 species, now mounted in the new gallery of the Jardin des 

 Plantes, and am still more confident of its distinctness, as shown 

 by the narrowness of the black strij^es, the difference of the 



