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he saw us and charged. TI had thus to shoot, and he dropped on his knees stone- 
dead for a 9,3 mm. mauser bullet between the shoulder and the neck. 
Thus, of all Rhinoceroses I had the opportunity of seeing only two charged, 
and the notes above may prove that it is not by far the rule that these animals 
are so bad-tempered as their reputation makes them. . 
Equidae. 
Equus burchelli böhmi MaATsCHIE. 
MaATrscHIE: Sitz.-ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1892, p. 131. 
(Equus burchelli grantii DE WINTON. 
DE WIiNTON: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1896, Ser. 6, Vol. XVII, p. 319.) 
This Zebra is common on the plains around Nairobi where not too heavily deci- 
mated by the settlers. At a place called Punda Melia, south of Fort Hall, which 
just has received its name (which means »zebra») from the former abundance of 
Zebras there, I saw only a single such animal on our way north, and six when we 
returned. On the acacia steppe noth of Meru boma at Luazomela, Itiolu, and Leki- 
undu rivers the Zebras were numerous, and at the latter locality they were often 
found in mixed herds with the large Grévy's Zebra without apparent rivality. On 
the Athi plains they often are associated with Coke's Hartebeest and Gnu, at the 
northern acacia steppe with Oryx Antelopes. 
North of Guaso Nyiri in the thornbush country I did not see any Zebras, but 
Mr. CUNNINGHAME told me that he had seen three one day. Although the -Zebras 
occasionally cross this river — perhaps when scared by Lions, or if some other danger 
threatens them — it appears to constitute the northern limit of their distribution in 
this part of East Africa. 
At a certain distance when the stripes are no longer conspicuous, a Zebra looks 
either very light grey almost white, or nearly black according to the different shade 
of light in which it stands. But a couple of the uppermost white stripes across the 
hind quarters shine much more brightly white than the others. 
A considerable variation in the colour pattern of the Zebras of British East 
Africa has already been proved by J. ÅA. ALLEN.! The same author has also stated 
the presence of shadow stripes in some specimens, even if they as a rule are absent. 
The difference between HK. b. grantii DE WINTON and HE. b. börmi MATSCHIE appears 
thus to be very slight if any as already once before has been pointed out by the 
present writer,” and MATSCHIE's name is the older. 
Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. New York, Vol. XXVI, Art. KXII, p. 160—165, figs 3—10. 
Mammals p. 32 in Wiss. Ergeb. d. Schwed. Zool. Exp. Kilimanjaro Meru von Y. SJösTtTEDT. 
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