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quaggas, like young zebras, were rough coated : 

 this point is well brought out in a photograph of 

 this specimen, kindly sent to me by Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater : a figure of the same individual was pub- 

 lished some two years ago in the Cape Times. 

 The mane of the Capetown quagga seems to be 

 of an almost uniform brown, with only scanty 

 indications of the usual white bands : otherwise 

 the markings are much the same as in adults. 



24. A quagga skin, brought home by Mr. T. 

 Cooper with other curios in 1860, was sent by 

 him to be sold at Stevens' Rooms about eighteen 

 years later, and Mr. Cooper suggests that this 

 may have been the skin purchased in 1879 for the 

 Edinburgh Museum : but, as has already been 

 seen, the Edinburgh specimen was probably an 

 animal which died in the Zoo. 



25. On August 22nd, 1899, a "skin of quagga 

 now extinct" appeared as lot 240 of a series of 

 natural history specimens sold on that date at 

 Stevens' Rooms. On inquiry I learnt that the 

 skin had been sent to be sold by a dealer who 

 had purchased it with some other curios from a 

 gentleman returned from abroad, so that it 

 had probably been imported direct from South 

 Africa. I have not been able to examine or 

 authenticate this skin, nor do I know who pur- 

 chased it at the sale. 



The above completes the census of known 



