. EQUUS BURCHELLII. (Equus Grevyi),2 which occurs chiefly in North-east Africa. It resembles in form the true zebra, but it is often bigger, the head is more like that of a donkey, and the stripes are finer and closer. Hitherto the zebras we had met with had been of the Equus Burcliellii or the Equus Chapmanii varieties ; only those found by the Count at the base of the Loroghi chain at a height of 7,550 feet were, I fancy, true zebras, whilst there seems 1 AVe may remark en passant that there is one in the Royal Natural History Museum at Vienna. 3 Named after President Grevy, to whom a specim
. EQUUS BURCHELLII. (Equus Grevyi),2 which occurs chiefly in North-east Africa. It resembles in form the true zebra, but it is often bigger, the head is more like that of a donkey, and the stripes are finer and closer. Hitherto the zebras we had met with had been of the Equus Burcliellii or the Equus Chapmanii varieties ; only those found by the Count at the base of the Loroghi chain at a height of 7,550 feet were, I fancy, true zebras, whilst there seems 1 AVe may remark en passant that there is one in the Royal Natural History Museum at Vienna. 3 Named after President Grevy, to whom a specimen was presented by the King of Shoa in 1882.—Trans.
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