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Show 1 9 0 4 .] PROF. J. C. EWART ON EA8T-AFRICAN ZEBRAS. 181 Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of an Asiatic King-Crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) which had been picked up alive off the Isle of Wight. Prof. J. C. Ewart, F.R.S., exhibited some skins and a series of lantern-slides of the Zebras of East Africa, and read the following note on a form generally resembling in conformation and markings the Mountain Zebra of South Africa:- Some years ago Mr. Rowland Ward presented me with a stuffed Zebra which, though originally " traded out of Somaliland," has a general resemblance to the Mountain Zebra of South Africa. This Zebra (now in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh) is in several respects so unlike the other forms hitherto described that, without waiting for its exact habitat*, it may be worth while pointing out how it agrees with, and differs from, the true Mountain Zebra, Text-fig. 35 Photo by G. A. Ewart. Ward's Zebra, to show long ears and face-stripes. This Zebra (which may be known as Ward's Zebra) very closely resembles the Mountain Zebra in height, in the form and size of the head, ears, and muzzle (text-fig. 35), in the mane, * I t probably inhabits part of the area between the upper reaches of the Tana River and Lake Rudolf. |