1904.] ON MAMMALS FROM FKBNANDO PC. 183 



decorated with four pairs of nearly symmetrically ai'i-an^-ed sti-ipes, 

 widest apart on a level with the eyes, and with four pairs of 

 stripes which meet in the centre of the forehead at or near the 

 point where the mane terminates four inches below the occipital 

 crest. 



In the above-mentioned stripes, as in those on the sides of the 

 head and on the neck, there is close agi-eement between the two 

 Zebras under consideration, but, as already stated, there are fewer 

 stripes in Ward's Zebra in connection with the dorsal band. If 

 the "gridiron" in the two forms is compared it will be noticed 

 that in Ward's Zebra the bars running across the rump are 

 coarser than in the Mountain Zebra, apparently owing to the 

 obliteration of several of the intervening light spaces. 



In text-figure 35 the colour and great length of the ears in 

 Ward's Zebra are well brought out — the ears are longer than in 

 any of the Mountain Zebras I have had the opportunity of 

 measuring, and instead of presenting a white tip and a narrow 

 white band midway between base and apex as in the Mountain 

 Zebra, the apex is dark, while the proximal part is only faintly 

 and irregularly pigmented. 



If one may judge by the ears, hoofs, and coloration. Ward's 

 Zebra is adapted for a habitat similar to that of the Mountain 

 Zebra ; moreover, like the Mountain Zebra, it has the rej)utation 

 of beinff stubborn and inti'actable. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Mammals from the Island of Fernando Po, collected 

 by Mr. E. Seimmid. By Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



[Received July 13, 1904.] 



(Plate XIII.*) 



[The complete account of the new geneva and subspecies described in this communi- 

 cation appears here ; but since the names and preliminary diagnoses were published 

 in the ' Abstract,' the genera and subspecies are distinguished bj^ the names being 

 underlined. — Editok.] 



One of the chief desiderata of the British Museum collection 

 of Mammals has long been a proper series representing the fauna 

 of the Island of Fernando Po. For from this island there came 

 in the early days of the study of zoology by British workers 

 quite a number of specimens, and these were described in the 

 ' Proceedings ' of this Society by Mr. G. R. Waterhouse and 

 others. But owing to age and exposure to light at a time when 

 the exhibition of types was not thought criminal, the original 

 specimens, on which all our comparisons depended, have become 

 so faded that but little use can now be made of them. 



* For explanation of the Plate, see p. 187. 



