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Show 690 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON LIVINGSTONE'S ELAND. [Nov. 19, species. Mr. Crawshay's skin corresponded nearly to the mounted specimen of Equus burchelli from Mashunaland (Selous) in the gallery of the British Museum. It was well known that this Zebra varied much in different localities. The original Equus burchelli of the Cape Colony (of which specimens were formerly living in the Society's Menagerie) was almost unspotted on the legs. As it occurs further north, however, this animal appeared to become more and more barred on the legs, until we arrived at the condition exhibited by the present specimen. There was also much variation in the body-markings in E. burchelli, as would be seen on inspection of the five examples of this Zebra living in the Society's Gardens. Herr Matschie ("Die afrikanischen Wildpferde," Zool. Gart. xxxv. Hefte 2 & 3) had lately endeavoured to make 4 species out of these different climatic forms-E. antiquorum, E. burchelli, E. chapmanni, and E. boehmi-but Mr. Sclater doubted whether they could be satisfactorily differentiated even as subspecies. Mr. Sclater exhibited a remarkably fine pair of horns of a male Livingstone's Eland (Oreas canna livingstonii), which Mr. H . H. Johnston, C.B., F.Z.S., offered for the Society's acceptance. The animal had been shot by one of Mr. Johnston's hunters in 1893 Skull and horns of Livingstone's Eland, d • |