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Show 1890.] MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON .EGIALITIS ASIATICA. 461 ordinary form of the Cape Colony (JEpyceros melampus) by having a short line beneath each eye passing towards the nostrils and a broad band in the centre of the forehead black. Mr. Sclater supposed it to be the species designated JEpyceros petersi by Bocage (P.Z.S. 1878, p. 741). Mr. Sclater also exhibited a large photograph of Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) taken by Mr. Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S., from the type specimen at Paris, and read the following remarks drawn up by Mr. Bolton on the subject:- " I send herewith a photograph just taken of the mounted specimen of Equus grevyi now in the Natural History Museum at Paris. Judging by a photograph in the Society's library taken when this animal was alive, I should fancy that nearly all trace of the true shape of the head has been lost in the mounting ; and judging by the height of the man (who is shown as feeding it) I imagine that the whole skin has been very greatly stretched, as it now appears far larger than any of the living specimens of Equus zebra that I have seen. " The skin of this mounted specimen is marked with very brilliant black and white lines, looking as though it had been bleached; the white mark above the tail being very much wider than in the skin exhibited at the last meeting. " In the Society's Proceedings for 1883 (P. Z. S. 1883, p. 175) is a paper read by Col. Grant, describing a Zebra that he found in Ugogo in 1860-5, with a woodcut of the head. Professor Flower has compared this carefully with the photograph before you, and thinks them identical." The Secretary exhibited on behalf of Mr. T. Southwell a mounted specimen of the Caspian Plover (jEgialitis asiatica), and read the following note from Mr. Southwell on the subject:- " On the evening of the 23rd May I received from Mr. Lowne, of Yarmouth, the fresh skin of a handsome full-plumaged male of Mgialitis asiatica, sent m e for identification. " Subsequently I learned the following particulars with regard to this interesting occurrence. During the morning of the 23rd of May two strange birds were seen in a large market-garden bordering on the North Denes at Yarmouth, wdiich attracted the attention of the occupier of the Gardens, but he had no opportunity of a shot till about 5.30 r.itf., when they were on the Golf ground which forms a portion of the Denes. He tried to get both birds in a line for a double shot; that being unsuccessful he selected the brighter of the two, its companion being at the time about six yards distant from it; when he fired, the paler bird, presumably the female, flew off in a westerly direction and was no more seen. Very shortly after, the bird was purchased of the shooter by Mr. H. C. Knights, by whom it was taken the next morning to Mr. Lowne for preservation, who, |