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sented to the Academy of Natural Sciences at 

 Philadelphia, where it still remains. No data are 

 known, 



9. A half or three-quarters grown quagga stallion 

 is preserved in the Natural History Museum of 

 the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and the late 

 M. Alphonse Milne Edwards informed me that 

 he thought it had been brought home from the 

 Cape by MM. Peron and Leseur. This would 

 fix 1804 as the date of acquisition by the Museum. 

 It seems probable, however, that this is the 

 Versailles specimen (No. 2 on the list of 

 menagerie animals given above). It is evidently 

 of great post mortem age, as it has been 

 provided with the old-fashioned circular glass 

 eyes used by taxidermists in the first half of the 

 last century. This example was mentioned by 

 Frederic Cuvier in 182 1 (" Histoire Naturelle des 

 Mammiferes "), and is probably the individual 

 delineated in Cassell's Natural History : at any rate, 

 though well nigh a century old, it is in excellent 

 condition, and well worth figuring in any standard 

 work. The fully adult quagga described by 

 Cuvier, which lived 18 or 20 years in the 

 Jardin des Plantes menagerie, is not now in 

 the collection. " Le Museum ne possede qu'un 

 seul individu d'Equus quagga.'' 



10. The Leyden collection contains a quagga 

 stallion obtained in 1826 on the borders of Cape 



