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with definite stripes passing downwards and for- 

 wards from the croup. I am informed that this 

 quagga was originally sold mounted by Franks, 

 but has since been re-stuffed for the Tring 

 Museum. Perhaps it is the duplicate from the 

 Amsterdam Zoo already mentioned. 



5. The Science and Art Museum at Edinburgh 

 possesses a stuffed quagga of unknown sex and 

 locality, obtained in 1879 from a London dealer. 

 I applied to its former owner, and as he kindly 

 informed me that one of the Zoo quaggas had 

 been purchased by him after its death, it is 

 probable that the Edinburgh specimen is the 

 quagga mare photographed in 1872 by York. The 

 photograph represents a much duller coloured 

 animal than the one at Tring ; the stripes 

 disappear completely on reaching the middle of 

 the body, and the hind quarters are absolutely 

 without markings. 



6. The Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical 

 Society at York contains an articulated quagga 

 skeleton, which is one of the first natural history 

 specimens which I ever remember seeing : 

 unfortunately no data relating to it have been 

 preserved. 



7. The Medical Museum of the Owens College, 

 Manchester, contains an equine skeleton alleged to 

 be that of a quagga. I have carefully examined 

 this specimen, and think it is authentic : the skull 



