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formerly lived in South Africa in considerable abundance 

 and now seems to be extinct. I mean the Quagga. We 

 find in H. A. Bryden's Kloof and Karroo in Cape Colony , 

 1889, an article »on the extinction of the true Quagga 

 {Equus quaggay\ Bryden says that he fears that there is 

 now no longer any reasonable doubt that the true Quagga — 

 Quacha of the Hottentots — Equus quagga of Linnaeus — must 

 be numbered in the increasing catalogue of extinct creatu- 

 res! and he exclaims: »no human effort can now recall 

 this magnificent form — it is gone for ever , after an 

 existance of untold thousands of years upon its spacious 

 plains!" 



If the Quagga nearly or really is extinct, then I 

 believe it more than time to look round in the Musea 

 of Natural History and to register what has been preser- 

 ved for future time: and I fear that our harvest will be 

 rather poor ! In the British Museum there is a stuffed 

 animal, in verg bad state (Handlist, a. s. o. 1873, p. 87). 

 In Natura Artis Magistra at Amsterdam there too is a 

 single stuffed specimen. In the Leyden Museum is a beauti- 

 fully stuffed adult male, died in 1826 in confinement and 

 received from the frontiers of the Cape-colony, and its 

 skeleton. Dr. Möbius of Berlin writes me that in the 

 Museum under his charge there are a stuffed female- 

 specimen with its skull and backbones , a skeleton and a 

 skull. I have no account about the other Musea of Natural 

 History. 



Notes from tbe Leyden ]\Xuseuixi, "Vol. XII. 



