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'seventies in the Orange Free State, probably, according to W. L. 

 Sclater (1900) , "till 1878 at least," but he adds, "it is difficult to 

 obtain any accurate information on the subject, as in so many cases 

 this and BurchelPs Zebra are confused together, especially as they 

 were both known under the name of quagga." 



In the earlier days of the last century and even shortly before, 

 Quaggas were occasionally tamed and also exported alive to the 

 zoological gardens of Europe. In disposition it was said to be much 

 more tractable than the BurchelPs Zebra, in captivity quickly be- 

 coming docile and tamable. On various occasions they were broken 

 to harness, and Sir William Jardine even mentions that a Mr. Sheriff 

 Parkins early in the nineteenth century drove a pair in London, 

 and was often seen in Hyde Park riding in a phaeton after them. 

 Probably one of the first Quaggas to reach Europe alive was the one 

 belonging to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, from which 

 in 1751 George Edwards made his colored drawing. The specimen 

 now in the Paris Museum was brought to the menagerie of the King, 

 at Versailles, in 1793. Others were later imported by animal dealers 

 such as Frank at Amsterdam. Of the various specimens extant in the 

 museums of Europe, the larger part were brought in alive and 

 received by the museums after having died in captivity. Thus the 

 locality of capture is in most of these cases unrecorded. In 1858, Sir 

 George Grey presented to the Zoological Society of London a male 

 Quagga which died six years later, in 1864. "It is the mounted skin, 

 skull and skeleton of this male which is now in the British Museum" 

 (Ridgeway, 1909). Previously in 1851 the Society had purchased 

 a female Quagga which survived in Regent's Park, until 1872, ap- 

 parently nearly the last living example of the species of which any 

 positive record exists. Further, this was the only living Quagga ever 

 to be photographed, and the picture has been reproduced by Ly- 

 dekker in his Guide to the Specimens of the Horse Family and by 

 Ridgeway in his paper of 1909. The skin was not in condition to be 

 preserved; but it is said that the skeleton was saved and mounted, 

 although at the present time it has been lost sight of and is evidently 

 not the one now in the British Museum. Finally, the last known 

 living specimen seems to have been one that died in the Berlin 

 Zoological Garden in 1875. The skin is mounted in the Zoological 

 Museum in that city, and the skeleton is also preserved there. 



Combining the lists of Ridgeway (1909) and Hilzheimer (1912), 

 the known specimens of the Quagga in the museums of the Old World 

 are the following (arranged alphabetically by location) : 



1. Amsterdam Museum. Mounted specimen, and separate skull. Figured 

 by Lydekker (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1904, vol. 1, p. 430, text-fig. 86) and 

 by Ridgeway (1909, p. 579, text-fig. 170). 



2. Basle Natural History Museum. A mounted female from Silo (Shiloh), 



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