CHAPTER YIl. 



GEEVY'S ZEBEA. 



(Equus grevyi.) ■ 



OuE first knowledge of this animal dates from 1882. On 

 December 19tli in that year Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibitedj at 

 the meeting of the Zoological Society, photographs of a 

 zebra, recently living in the Jardin des Plaates, Paris, 

 which he had received from M. A. Milne-Edwards, and he 

 pointed out the differences that he considered separated 

 this animal from the common or mountain zebra. At that 

 time a single specimen of the species had been sent alive 

 by King Menelek of Shoa to the President of the French 

 Eepublic, but it unfortunately died after a short residence 

 in the Zoological Gardens at Paris. 



This animal is doubtless identical with that common 

 in Somali-land, described by Dr. Bmin Bey as existing 

 in large numbers in Lattako. This naturalist, however, 

 identified it with the ordinary Equus zebra. 



Bight years afterwards, that is in 1890, Mr. Sclater 

 exhibited, at the Zoological Society, a skin of this zebra, 

 which was received from northern Somali-land, and 

 said: 



" I have recently again examined the typical example of this 

 species, now mounted in the new gallery of the Jardin des 

 Plantes, and am still more confident of its distinctness, as shown 

 by the narrowness of the black stripes, the difference of the 



