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than that of many of the antelopes. The flesh is highly prized 

 bv the Rer Amaden and Malinmir tribes. 



" The zebra was very common in the territory of these two 

 tribes. The country there is covered with scattered bush over 

 its entire surface, and is strong and much broken up by ravines ; 

 the general elevation is about 2500ft. above sea-level. 



" The zebras, of which I saw ^^robably not more than 200 in 

 all, were met with in small droves of about half a dozen on 

 low plateaux covered with scattered thorn bush and glades of 

 * durr ' grass, the soil being powdery and red in colour with an 

 occasional outcrop of rocks. In this sort of country they are 

 very easy to stalk, and I should never have fired at them for 

 sj^ort alone. I saw none in the open flats of the Webbe valley, 

 and they never come near so far north as the open grass plains 

 of the Hand ; Durhi, south of the Fafan, being their northern 

 limit. 



" The young zebras have longer hair, and the strij^es are 

 rather light brown, turning to a deep chocolate, which is nearlv 

 black in adult animals. 



" After firing at one of a drove of zebras, I was sorrv to find 

 on going up to it that it was a female, and that its foal was 

 standing by the body, refusing to run away, though the rest 

 had all gone. We crept up to within ten yards of it, and made 

 an unsuccessful attempt to noose it with a rope weighted bv 

 bullets, but it made off after the first try. We must have been 

 quite five minutes standing within ten yards in the thick bush 

 while we were preparing the noose. 



" Zebras are very inquisitive ; when I was encamped for some 

 days at Eil-Fud, in the Eer Amaden country, the zebras used to 

 come at night and bray and stamp round our camp, and were 

 answered by my Abyssinian mule. The sounds of the two 

 animals are very similar." 



The late Mr. J. T. Tristram-Valentine wrote : 



" I have read Mr. Tegetmeier's remarks on Equus grevyi, which 

 appeared in the Field, with great interest, and I should like to say 

 a few words on the subject of the Somali-land zebra. Some 



