EXTINCT ANIMALS 



become extinct. But it is not a zebra, as no 

 doubt some of you thought it must be. This 

 is the quagga, which differs from the zebra in 

 being striped in front only. The quagga lived 



Fio. lU.— Photograph of the living Quagga {Equus quagga) 

 in the gardens of the Zoological Society in 1875, now 

 extinct. 



in South Africa, and was quite common there 

 until forty years ago. This pliotograph was 

 taken from a specimen which Hved in the 



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