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Show 1904.] ON MAMMALS FROM FERNANDO PO. 183 decorated with four pairs of nearly symmetrically arranged stripes, widest apart on a level with the eyes, and with four pairs of stripes which meet in the centre of the forehead at or near the point where the mane terminates four inches below the occipital crest. In the above-mentioned stripes, as in those on the sides of the head and on the neck, there is close agreement between the two Zebras under consideration, but, as already stated, there are fewer stripes in Ward's Zebra in connection with the dorsal baud. If the " gridiron " in the two forms is compared it will be noticed that in Ward's Zebra the bars running across the rump are coarser than in the Mountain Zebra, apparently owing to the obliteration of several of the intervening light spaces. In text-figure 35 the colour and great length of the ears in Ward's Zebra are well brought out-the ears are longer than in any of the Mountain Zebras I have had the opportunity of measuring, and instead of presenting a white tip and a narrow white band midway between base and apex as in the Mountain Zebra, the apex is dark, while the proximal part is only faintly and irregularly pigmented. If one may judge by the ears, hoofs, and coloration, Ward's Zebra is adapted for a habitat similar to that of the Mountain Zebra; moreover, like the Mountain Zebra, it has the reputation of being stubborn and intractable. The following papers were read 1. Oil Mammals from the Island of Fernando Po, collected by Mr. E. Seimund. By O l d f i e l d Thom as, F.R.S., F.Z.S. [Received July 13,1904.] (Plate XIII.*) [The complete account of the new genera and subspecies described in this communication appears here ; but since the names and preliminary diagnoses were published in the ‘ Abstract,' the genera and subspecies are distinguished by the names being underlined.- E d i t o k .J One of the chief desiderata of the British Museum collection of Mammals has long been a proper series representing the fauna of the Island of Fernando Po. For from this island there came in the early days of the study of zoology by British workers quite a number of specimens, and these were described in the ‘ Proceedings' of this Society by Mr. G. R. Waterhouse and others. But owing to age and exposure to light at a time when the exhibition of types was not thought criminal, the original specimens, on which all our comparisons depended, have become so faded that but little use can now be made of them. * For explanation of the Plate, see p. 187. |
