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PROF. W. RIDGEWAY ON THE 



:Mayll, 



I had remarked in reading Mr. A. H. ISTeumann's excellent 

 book, ' Elephant - hunting in Equatorial East Africa,' that 

 although both Grevy and Burchelline Zebras are found in the 

 same country and not unfrequently together, yet on the whole 



Text-fig. 151. 



Grant's Zebra (male) ; Laikipia (5800 ft.). 



Grevy Zebras live in low-lying grounds with a thin vegetation of 

 prickly shrubs, whilst the Burchelline species lives commonly at a 

 higher elevation and where there is more bush and richer pasture. 

 But on the mountains and plateaus of this area the conditions 



