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quagga — that purchased at the Knowsley sale — 

 so that the 1870 animal would in any case be 

 a " duplicate specimen " — a valuable asset to be 

 profitably disposed of in the best market. 



So much for the quagga in captivity. After 

 laborious enquiry, it appears that the animal has 

 never been exhibited in the Zoological Gardens 

 of Bristol, Cologne, Dublin, Frankfort-on-Main, 

 Hamburg, Hanover, Lisbon, Marseilles, or Rotter- 

 dam : therefore, on adding the few odd individuals 

 formerly taken young by the colonists as curio- 

 sities (and not by wild beast merchants for export), 

 the list is completed. It has not seemed worth 

 while to compile a census — probably imperfect 

 at best — of the few seen in Africa about the 

 homesteads of their captors by Sparrman, 

 Burchell, and others. The following is a list of 

 specimens in museums, compiled after a lengthy 

 correspondence with various scientific gentlemen 

 in Europe, South Africa, and the United States, 

 and I hasten to express my thanks to them all 

 in this place. The tale of quagga relics is as 

 follows : 



I. A newly-mounted old skin of a quagga 

 stallion has been placed in the Mammal Gallery 

 of the Natural History Museum at South Ken- 

 sing-ton. It has been stated to have belong-ed to 

 the male quagga presented to the Zoological 

 Gardens by Sir George Grey in 1858, but a 



