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careful examination of the skull (i a ) belonging to 

 the skeleton of the same animal showed me that 

 it was labelled " Eqiius quagga, the specimen men- 

 tioned in Waterhouse's Mam. of Mus. Zool. Soc. 

 1838, p. 37." It was purchased with the skin for 

 the British Museum in 1864. The teeth are 

 much worn. The specimen is doubtless the first 

 quagga purchased for the Zoo in 1831. Sir 

 George Grey's animal was a beast in the prime 

 of life, slaughtered through grim necessity, owing, 

 as we have already seen, to its self-inflicted 

 injuries. The quagga skin which Sir Cornwallis 

 Harris states to have been exhibited previous to 

 1840 by the Zoological Society, cannot have 

 been that of Sir Geo. Grey's specimen : it 

 probably belonged to the 1838 quagga above 

 mentioned, or was perhaps a trophy brought 

 home by Harris himself. 



2, 3. I have examined the skulls of Sheriff 

 Parkins' famous quaggas in the Royal College of 

 Surgeons' Museum. Both are the skulls of young 

 adult males, with the sutures unobliterated, and 

 without any trace of the first premolar teeth. 

 They were purchased for the College at the 

 sale of the greater part of the Brookes collection, 

 in 1828. 



4. The Tring Museum contains a beautiful 

 stuffed quagga mare : the markings are particularly 

 distinct, and even the hind quarters are ornamented 



