126 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 



Equus grevyi Oustalet. 



Oustalet: La Nature 1882 X An. II semestre, p. 12. 



(Equus grevyi faurei Matschie? 



Matschie: Sitz.-ber. d. Ges. Naturforsch. Freuade. Berlin 1898 p. 170 & 180.) 



It is rather uncertain, as well if the subspecific name ^faueri» can be main- 

 tained, as, if this should be the case, by which characteristics the race provided with 

 that name shall be distinguished. When the name was given Matschie wrote as 

 follows: »Wahrscheinlich wird E. faurei mit weisser Schwanzspitze sich von ^, grevyi 

 mit schwarzer Schwanzspitze gut unterscheiden und letzteres die Somali-Lander, 

 ersteres die von mir als Rudolf-See-Gebiet zusammengefassten Gegenden bewohnen, 

 zu welchen auch Schoa und das siidliche Abyssinien zu rechnen ist.* At my request 

 whether he later had obtained any more material, and whether he perhaps could 

 add any more characteristics by which these two races could be separated Matschie 

 kindly replied that this was not the case. At the same time, however, he M'rote: 

 »Bei E. grevyi sind die dunklen Binden auf den Halsseiten hinter dem Kinn ungefiihr 

 so breit wie die hellen, bei faurei sind die weissen Binden etwa halb so breit wie 

 die schwarzen.» 



According to these two characteristics — the white tail-tuft and the relative 

 breadth of the black stripes on the sides of the neck — the following figures in the 

 literature among others belong to »E. g. faurei^: 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899 p. 714 & p. 825 (Sclater); 



Atti R. Accad. delle Science, Torino Vol. XXXVII (Camerano) figs. 1—5; 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1900 p. 553 & p. 554 (Ridgway) ; 



The Game Animals of Africa, 1908 p. 49 & 51 (Lydekker). 



On the other hand the typical Equus grevyi would be represented by Ousta- 

 let's two figures accompanying his first description of the species in »La Nature » 

 Vol. X. 1882, and by Sclater's figure in Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1882 p. 721. Con- 

 cerning the origin of the specimen of Equus grevyi Oustalet gives the following 

 information: »Ce Zebre qui a ete capture dans cette region de I'Afrique orientale 



qu'on appelle le pays des Gallas* »I1 a ete offert en present par S. M. Me- 



nelek, roi de Choa a M. le President de la Republique* . The latter figure 



as well has been prepared from a photograph of an animal which »had been sent alive 



by King Menelek of Shoa to the President of the French Republic* and the 



figure in the same »Proceedings» for 1899 p. 713 which should belong to E. grevyi 

 faurei represents likewise »a fine female specimen of Grevy's Zebra presented to the 



President of the French Republic by the Emperor Menelek, and received in 



September 1898 ». These three specimens have thus a similar origin, in spite of their 

 different appearance, as all of them have come from King Menelik's dominions, pre- 



