46 GBEVY'S ZEBBA. 



" I found they did not range further north on my route than 

 about 7° 50' of latitude, and thence to the Webbe Shabeli river 

 at Ime, on the Galla border, they were common. The zebras, of 

 which I saw several herds at different times, were always found 

 on low plateaux covered with scattered or thick thorn bush and 

 tall, feathery ' durr ' grass, with red gravelly soil and rocks 

 cropping up now and then. I saw none of their tracks in the 

 wide open grass plains, though this was not, I believe, the 

 experience of another sportsman whose route lay about 100 miles 

 io the eastward of, and parallel to, mine. The zebras, when I 

 saw them, were in herds of under a dozen, and they were so 

 tame that it was only because I had a large following to feed 

 that I was induced to shoot them. I have several skins, and 

 the stripes of adult ones only approach ' intense black ' over 

 the withers ; elsewhere they are of a very deep chocolate colour, 

 •changing to light tan on the forehead and muzzle. 



" In the skin of a quite young zebra which some natives 

 brought me, the stripes were light brown, except on the withers. 

 I notice that skins brought down by natives and sold in Aden 

 seem to fade, and appear nearly dull black. The stripes on all 

 the skins of some 200 zebras which I saw alive, at one time 

 and another, were of the sama narrow type on the flanks, show- 

 ing no variation in pattern so far as I could see." 



At a later date Captain Swayne, in his valuable field 

 notes on the Game Animals of Somali-land, published in 

 the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society" for 1894, writes 

 of this animal as follows : 



" G-revy's Zebra (the Somali name of which is fer'o) was, I 

 think, first shot in Somali-land by Colonel Paget and myself on 

 oiu- simultaneous expeditions last spring. 



" I found them first at Durhi, in Central Ogaden, between the 

 Tug Faf an and the Webbe, about 300 miles inland from Berbera. 

 I shot seven specimens, all of which were eaten by myself and 

 my thirty followers ; in fact, for many days we had no other 

 food ; and this was no hardship whatever, as the meat is better 



