THE QUAGGA 



{Equus quagga) 



The Quagga is now extinct. It formerly roamed 

 over the plains of the Cape Province and the Orange 

 Free State in large herds. It was a purely South 

 African Zebra, for its range only extended from 

 the central plains of the Cape, and over the vast 

 veld of the Orange Free State. It does not seem 

 to have wandered north of the Vaal River or east 

 of the Kei. 



It was hunted and shot down in a most merciless 

 manner by the Voortrekkers, and was finally ex- 

 terminated in the Cape about the year i860. The 

 last of which there is any record were shot near 

 Tygerberg in the Aberdeen District in 1858. A 

 few individuals survived until about the year 

 1878 in the Free State. A live Quagga was ex- 

 hibited in the London Zoological Gardens. It was 

 presented by Sir George Grey in 1858, and lived 

 for six years, dying in June 1864. It is now 

 mounted and on exhibition at the British Museum. 

 Mounted specimens are also on exhibition in the 

 Edinburgh and Tring Museums in Britain, and in 

 the Paris, Berlin, Frankfort, Mainz, Basle and 

 Berne Museums in Europe. The Cape Town 



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