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December 3, 1901. 



W. T. Blasfoed, Esq., LL.D., F.K.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1901 : — 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of November was 112, of which 29 were by 

 presentation, 42 by purchase. 38 were received on deposit, and 3 

 were bred in the Gardens. The number of departures during the 

 same period, by death and removals, was 182. 



Amongst the additions special attention may be called to: — 



A young male Zebra, sent as a present to H.M. The King from 

 the Emperor Menelek, and, by His Majesty's orders, placed under 

 the care of the Society, and now lodged in the New Zebra House 

 next to the Grevy's Zebra. 



Before it arrived at Abbis Abeba this animal was supposed to be a 

 male Grevy's Zebra ; but some photographs of it which were kindly 

 forwarded to me by Col. Harrington, and which I now exhibit 

 (text-fig. 55, p. 504), showed at once that this was not the case. 

 The animal, of which I exhibit an excellent coloured drawing 

 ( Plate XXIX.), prepared by Mr. J. Smit, is decidedly not a Grevy's 

 Zebra, but belongs to the series of Burchell's Zebra which is so 

 widely diffused from North to Southern Africa. After carefully 

 going into the literature of the subject, I have come to the decision 

 (in which I am happy to say that Mr. Oldfield Thomas and Mr.de 

 Winton agree with me) that this Zebra is most probably the same 

 as that described by Mr. de Wiuton (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 

 xvii. p. 319, 1896) as E<jvus burchelli grantV ; but I am not sure that 

 it will not be better to class it as a full species and to call it Equua 

 gronti, under which term I have had it labelled in the Society's 

 Gardens. As will be seen by the drawing, its small ears and 

 different system of striping, not to speak of its much inferior size, 

 at once separate it from E. grevyi, and another distinguishing 

 feature is the pure black of its stripes and the entire absence of 

 what have been termed shadow-stripes. 



Its height is 40' inches at the withers, whereas the height of tin- 

 female E. grevyi is 50 inches. 



I regret that I have not been able to ascertain from Col. Harrington 

 or Oapt. DiitY in what part of the A byssiuian dominions this 

 beautiful animal was obtained; but 1 have little doubt that it is 

 from Lake Rudolf, in which district is has been stated by several 

 observers that herds of the larger and smaller Zebras are in some 



1 Mr. R. I. Pocook lias jjiven a list of the subspecies of Eqwti burchelli in |ii s 



article "On the Bpeoiei and Subspecies of Zebras,' 1 published in die ' Annals a 

 Magazine of Natural History' for July 1897 (Ann. iV Mag Nat Bist. (6) xx. 



1'1'wip other formi of /'. burchelli have been rinoe described, viz , Equu* 

 urchetti rambetientit (Trouew., Hull. Una. (THist. Nut. iv. p. 84, 1898) and 

 B. b.foa iTniz.ik .t Trouett . Hull. Afas. d'Hist Nat v p ?<'>'2, 1899). 



