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occurrence even in museums now;^ (2)Burclieirs zehvsi [Equus 

 Burchellii), also known as the Dauw ; (3) Chapman's zebra 

 {Equus Chapmcmii), all three about the size of a horse, the 

 second with no stripes on the legs, and the third striped all 

 over down to the hoofs ; the Equus Burchellii and Equus 

 Chapmanii, however, cannot with certainty be said to be of 

 different species ; (4) the true or mountain zebra [Equus zebra) 

 striped all over, and differing from the two last named chiefly 

 in having more of the build of an ass ; and lastly, Grevy's zebra 



EQUUS BURCHELLII. 



[Equus Grevyi)^- which occurs chiefly in North-east Africa. It 

 resembles in form the true zebra, but it is often bigger, the 

 head is more like that of a donkey, and the stripes are finer 

 and closer. Hitherto the zebras we had met with had been 

 of the Equus Burcliellii or the Equus Chapmanii varieties ; only 

 those found by the Count at the base of the Loroghi chain at a 

 height of 7,550 feet were, I fancy, true zebras, whilst there seems 



^ We may remark en jJCissant that there is one in the Royal Natural History 

 Museum at Vienna. 



~ Named after President Grevy, to wliom a specimen was presented by the King 

 of Shoa in 1882.— Trans. 



