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WILL you kindly allow me a little space to direct attention to a new and very interesting variety of Grant's zebra, shown in the accompanying photograph sent me by my friend Mr. C. W. Hobley, C.M.G., commissioner at Nairobi, East Africa? The specimen, writes Mr. Hobley, “was obtained by Mr. G. H. Goldfinch, assistant game ranger of the East African Protectorate, a few months ago in the neighbourhood of the Rift Valley. The animal has a “big whitey patch in the middle of the back, and it came out of a herd which were all the same. I suppose it is a Mendelian ‘ sport,’ which has become dominant in that particular herd, like the white waterbuck on the Euaso Nyiro, north of Kenia”.
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RIDGEWAY, W. A New Variety of Zebra. Nature 86, 245 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086245a0
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