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PROF. W. RIDGEWAY ON THE 



[May 11, 



though the Grevy Zebras were abnndaDt. I had previously noted 

 in Col. Swayne's valuable paper (P. Z. S. 1894) that in Somaliland 

 the Grevy Zebra lives in a like environment. He found them 

 first at Durhi, about 300 miles inland from Berbera. These 

 zebras are very common in the land of the Rer Amaden and 



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Grant's Zebra (female) ; Uasingishu (6500 ft.). 



Malingur tribes. " The country there is covered with scattered 

 bush over its entire surface, and is stony and much broken up by 

 ravines ; the general elevation is about 2500 feet." The zebras 

 " were met on low plateaux covered with scattered thorn bush and 

 glades of durr grass, the soil being powdery and red in colour with 



