126 EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
Equus grevyi ÖUSTALET. 
OusTALET: La Nature 1882 X An. II semestre, p. 12. 
(Equus grevyi faurei MATSCHIE? 
MaArscHIE: Sitz.-ber. d. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde. Berlin 1898 p. 170 & 180.) 
It is rather uncertain, as well if the subspecifie 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 EE. faurei mit weisser Schwanzspitze sich von H. grevyi 
mit schwarzer Schwanzspitze gut unterscheiden und letzteres die Somali-Länder, 
ersteres die von mir als Rudolf-See-Gebiet zusammengefassten Gegenden bewohnen, 
zu welchen auch Schoa und das säödliche 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 wrote: 
>» Bei £. grevyr sind die dunklen Binden auf den Halsseiten hinter dem Kinn ungefähr 
so breit wie die hellen, bei faurei sind die weissen Binden etwa halb so breit wie 
die schwarzen.» 
According to these two characteristies — 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 (SCcLATER); 
Atti R. Accad. delle Science, Torino Vol. XXNXVII (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 SCcLATER's figure in Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1882 p. 721. Con- 
cerning the origin of the specimen of Hquus grevyt OUSTALET gives the following 
information: »Ce Zebre qui a été capturé dans cette région de VPAfrique orientale 
qu'on appelle le pays des Gallass — — — >»Il a été offert en présent par S. M. Mé- 
nélek, roi de Choa å M. le Président de la République» — — —. 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 HE. grevyi 
faurei represents likewise »a fine female specimen of Grévy'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- 
