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Show 1890.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON EQUUS GREVYI. 413 warded to Mr. Sclater by Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, and made the following remarks:- " In 1882 (see P. Z. S. 1882, p. 721) I called the attention of the Society to the discovery of the new Zebra of Shoa, named Equus grevyi by M . Milne-Edwards, and to its differences from the southern E. zebra. I have recently again examined the typical example of this species, now mounted in the new gallery of the Jardin des Plantes, and am still more confident of its distinctness, as shown by the narrowness of the black stripes, the difference of the markings, Fig- 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 1.-Flat skin oi Equus grevyi, from Somali-Land. Fig. 2.-Flat skin of E. burchelli, from Masai-Land. and the white spaces on the forehead and on each side of the dorsal stripe in the northern species. "Dr. Gestro, of the Museo Civico, Genoa, informs me that that museum received, in June 1888, two specimens of this Zebra (an adult female, skin and cranium, and the skin of a young animal) from Dr. V. Ragazzi, Chief of the Italian Station Let-Marefix in Shoa. " Being anxious to know whether the ' Berg-Zebra' of Somali- Land, spoken of by Herr Menges (Zool. Gart. 1887, p. 263) as found |