THE TRUE QUAGGA 



Colony, probably by Dr. Von Horstock : the 

 perfect skeleton (IOA) of the same individual is 

 also in the Museum, and by the kindness of the 

 museum authorities I have been enabled to photo- 

 graph these very interesting relics. 



11. The quagga mare, formerly in the Knows- 

 ley Menagerie, and afterwards purchased for the 

 Amsterdam Zoological Gardens, is now preserved 

 in the zoological museum attached to the latter 

 institution. It has been very well mounted, the 

 modelling being very good, while even the 

 colour of the iris has been carefully reproduced, 

 as shown in Waterhouse Hawkins' plate of the 

 same individual during life. The hemione-quagga 

 hybrid, 1 to which this Amsterdam specimen gave 

 birth, does not seem to be in the museum : perhaps 

 it died young, and the skin was not preserved. 



12. A stuffed quagga is preserved in the Berne 

 Natural History Museum. The Swiss authorities 

 are apparently unaware of the great value of their 

 specimen, and it is the only example I know which 

 is not protected by glass from dust and injury. 



13. The Zoological Museum at Turin contains 

 a stuffed quagga and its skull (ISA), obtained at 

 the Cape in 1827. Probably this was collected 

 by Dr. Von Horstock, who is known to have 

 obtained a quagga at Steenbergen, on June 



i The hemione (Equus hemionus) is the Asiatic wild ass the 

 onager of Xenophon. 



