1890.] 



MR. P. L. SCLATKR ON EQUUS GREVYT. 



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warded to Mr. Sclater by Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, and made the fol- 

 lowing remarks : — . n .-, 



" In 1882 (see P. Z. S. 1882, p. 721) I called the attention of the 

 Society to the discovery of the new Zebra of Shoa, named Equus 

 grevyi by M. Milne-Edwards, and to its differences from the southern 

 E. zebra. I have recently again examined the typical example of 

 this species, now mounted in the new gallery of the Jardiu des 

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

 the narrowness of the black stripes, the difference of the markings, 



Fig. 1. — Flat skin of Kqiiiis c/revi/i, fruni Souiali-Iiiuid. 

 Fig. 2. — Flat skin of E. burcheUi, from Masai-Land. 



and the white spaces on the forehead and on each side of the dorsal 

 stripe in the northern species. 



" Dr. Gestro, of the Museo Civico, Genoa, informs me that that 

 museum received, in June 1888, two specimens of this Zebra (an 

 adult female, skin and cranium, and the skin of a young animal) 

 from Dr. V. llagazzi. Chief of the Italian Station Let-Marefix in 



Shoa. 



" Being anxious to know whether the ' Berg-Zebra ' of Somali- 

 Land, spoken of by Herr Menges (Zool. Gart. 1887, p. 263) as found 



