. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . to define in what the differencesconsisted. The Somal accompanying him declared with delightthat they were their zebras, and that therefore they could notbe very far from their own Somaliland. As far as I know, science recognises five kinds of zebra,namely, (1) the quagga [Equus quagga), of a bay colour, withstripes on the head, neck, and shoulders only, which becameextinct more than twenty-five years ago, and is of very rare 78 THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE EUDOLF occurrence even in museums now;^ (2) Burchells
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . to define in what the differencesconsisted. The Somal accompanying him declared with delightthat they were their zebras, and that therefore they could notbe very far from their own Somaliland. As far as I know, science recognises five kinds of zebra,namely, (1) the quagga [Equus quagga), of a bay colour, withstripes on the head, neck, and shoulders only, which becameextinct more than twenty-five years ago, and is of very rare 78 THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE EUDOLF occurrence even in museums now;^ (2) Burchells zebra [EquusBurchellii), also known as the Dauw ; (3) Chapmans zebra{Equus Chapmanii), all three about the size of a horse, thesecond with no stripes on the legs, and the third striped allover down to the hoofs; the Equus Burchellii and EquusChapmanii, however, cannot with certainty be said to be ofdifferent species ; (4) the true or mountain zebra [Equus zebra)striped all over, and differing from the two last named chieflyin having more of the build of an ass; and lastly, Grevys zebra. EQUUS BURCHELLII. (Equus Grevyi),^ which occurs chiefly in North-east Africa. Itresembles in form the true zebra, but it is often bigger, thehead is more like that of a donkey, and the stripes are flinerand closer. Hitherto the zebras we had met with had beenof the Equus Burchellii or the Equus Chapmanii varieties ; onlythose found by the Count at the base of the Loroghi chain at aheight of 7,550 feet were, I fancy, true zebras, whilst there seems 1 We may remark en passant that there is one in the Royal Natural HistoryMuseum at Vienna. ^ Named after President Grevy, to whom a specimen was presented by the Kingof Shea in 1882.—Tkans. ENCOUNTER WITH AN ELEPHANT 79 to be no doubt that those we saw here were of the Equus Grevyikind. In spite of every precaution the Count was not able to getwithin range of these shy animals, and he saw no other until he was about to return home did he
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