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College, Cambridge, and which is here for the first time pub- 

 lished. It is in the museum of the Elgin and Morayshire 

 Society at Elgin, to which it was "presented in 1861 by 

 John Maclean, Esq., of King Williamstown, British Kaffraria," 

 according to a document hunted up for me by the most obliging 

 curator, Mr Gordon Taylor, to whom I am indebted for the 

 following description. " There are nine stripes on the face 

 (Fig. 131), spreading out and meeting in a point on the fore- 

 head about three inches below the ears and meeting in the 

 same way about four inches above the nose, with four or five 

 running upward and inwards above each eye. The ears are 

 smaller than those of the zebra. The ground colour of the 

 head and face is a dark fawn, the neck (of which there are about 

 1-5 inches attached to the head) inclines to dull brown above, 

 passing into a fawn colour below. On the portion of the neck 

 attached to the head there are six dull white interspaces mixed 

 with brown hairs measuring from half-an-inch up to an inch in 

 width, the widest being nearest the body, the stripes themselves 

 being very irregular and wavy and being completely fused on 

 the throat. The hair of the almost erect mane is mostly 

 reddish-brown tipjjed with a darker shade, having patches of 

 white, the largest bunches being where the interspaces meet 

 the mane. The stripes on the face are white, the spaces 

 between them a dull brown, showing a decided contrast to the 

 ground colour of the face. On the side of the face, running 

 down across the jaw, are six or seven stripes of the same 

 shade of brown, but no white." Of the described specimens 

 of the quagga (pp. 70 — 7), Mr Pocock thinks that the Elgin 

 specimen comes much nearest to E. greyi, but he thinks it 

 may belong to a new type. The importance of an additional 

 fragment of quagga is increased by the fact that it is the only 

 one of the existing specimens the provenance of which is 

 known. 



The change in coloration from E. granti (pp. 63-9) to 

 Daniell's quagga (p. 78) was probably due to "a change of 

 habitat from bush to open plain. A new method of conceal- 

 to the Elgin Museum last September noticed a specimen labelled 'Quagga' and 

 at once called my attention to it. 



