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known to have lived for at least five years 

 afterwards. 



5. Lord Mostyn had a quagga stallion which 

 he crossed with a chestnut mare : the resulting 

 hybrid is mentioned by Charles Darwin, but 

 nothing more is known about it. 



6, 7. At some time previous to 1826 Sheriff 

 Parkins used to drive two male quaggas (not a 

 pair as is usually stated) through the streets of 

 London harnessed to a light phaeton : these 

 beautiful steeds were often seen in Hyde Park 

 and other fashionable places, and Agasse's portrait 

 of one of them still hangs in the Royal College of 

 Surgeons' Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 

 These quaggas unfortunately died while still in 

 the prime of life ; their bodies were presented 

 to Mr. Joshua Brookes, a celebrated naturalist, 

 whose museum was second only to the famous 

 collection of John Hunter. The skulls are 

 preserved in the Royal College of Surgeons' 

 Museum, while Agasse's portrait has been 

 perpetuated as a woodcut in the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica, being employed to illustrate the 

 article " Quagga," by the late Sir Wm. Flower. 



8, 9, 10. Three quaggas (not two as is usually 

 stated) have been exhibited in the London Zoo- 

 logical Gardens. The first specimen was purchased 

 in 1831, and was probably one of the parents 

 of the quagga hybrids said to have been 



