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ME. P, I. SCLATEE ON LIVINGSTONE'S ElAND. [NoV. 19, 



species. Mr. Crawshay's skin corresponded nearly to the mounted 

 specimen of Equus hurclielli from Mashunaland {Selous) in the 

 gallery of the British Museum. It was well known that this 

 Zebra varied much in different localities. The original Equus 

 hurchelli of the Cape Colony (of which specimens were formerly 

 living in the Society's Menagerie) was almost vmspotted on the 

 legs. As it occurs further north, however, this animal appeared to 

 become more and more barred on the legs, until we arrived at the 

 condition exhibited by the present specimen. There was also 

 much variation in the body-markings in E. hurclielli, as would be 

 seen on inspection of the five examples of this Zebra living in the 

 Society's Gardens. 



Herr Matschie ("Die afrikanischen Wildpferde," Zool. Gart. 

 XXXV. Hefte 2 & 3) had lately endeavoured to make 4 species out 

 of these different climatic forms — E. aniiquorum, E. hurchelli, 

 E. chapmamii, and E. hoehmi — but Mr. Sclater doubted whether 

 they could be satisfactorily differentiated even as subspecies. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a remarkably fine pair of horns of a male 

 Livingstone's Eland {Oreas canna livingstonii), which Mr. H. H. 

 Johnston, C.B., F.Z.S., offered for the Society's acceptance. The 

 animal had been shot by one of Mr. Johnston's hunters in 1893 



Skull »nd horns of Livingstone's Eland, cS . 



