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Show 50 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON AN [Feb. 5, 4. O n an apparently new Species of Zebra from the Semliki Forest. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received February 4, 1901.] (Text-figure 7.) I have now had time to examine more carefully the two waist-belts, made of skiu, forwarded to me by Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., F.Z.S., and already exhibited at the meeting on December 18th last (see P. Z. S. 1900, p. 950). I have come to the conclusion that, whether the native account of the animal from which they were taken is precisely correct or not, the specimens themselves cannot be referred to any of the known species of Zebra and must beloug to an undescribed animal, which I propose, provisionally at least, to name after its discoverer, with the following characters, until better specimens are obtained :- EQUUS (?) JOHNSTONI, sp. nov. Supra saturate nigro-cinereus aut fulvus; cruribus intus albi-cantibus, cruribus extus et lateribus fasciis nigris, utrinque castaneo distincte limbatis, ornatis ; capite longo exteuso. Hab. in sylvis fluvio Semliki adjacentibus. The chief peculiarity iu the two pieces of skin, which are all the certain evidence we as yet possess of the existence of this Zebra, is that the black bands, which are separated from each other by pale buffy-white bands, as shown in the figures (text-fig. 7), are distinctly edged on both sides with pale rufous. The two bandoliers, which I again exhibit, have been apparently taken from the external portion of the front or hind legs. The hairs are very short, thin, and closely adpressed. Their lay is downwards from the more regularly banded portion of the skins (which I take to be the highest on the sides) to that less banded (which I suppose to be low down on the legs). The bandoliers measure-specimen a about 36 inches, aud specimen b about 30 inches in length including the fringes. In order to make the subject complete I read agaiu the portion of Sir Harry Johnston's letter (dated Fort Portal, Toru, Aug. 21, 1900) that refers to it :- "Beading Stanley's ' Darkest Africa 'I noticed that he mentions his Dwarf having a word for horse or ass, and stating that such animals were found in their forests. As the ordinary Zebra type of equine steadily avoids dense woodland, this statement seemed to me a curious one. While I entertained for months the pigmy band who had been captured by a filibustering German (and the restoration of whom to their homes was one of my motives for going iuto the Congo Free State), I questioned them on this subject and they were very explicit: they told me they called the animal ' 0',Api' (', stands for a gasping sound like an aspirate or Arabic H). They described it as being dun-coloured or dark grey over all the |