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opposite side ; the general ground-colour appears to 

 have been yellowish red or chestnut, but the legs 

 are much lighter, as is also the belly. The older 

 African hunters, like Sir Cornwallis Harris, appear 

 to have been convinced of the existence of more 

 than one local form of quagga in Cape Colony and 

 the adjacent districts ; and the last survivor in cap- 

 tivity of these animals, which lived in the London 

 Zoological Gardens from 1858 till 1864, whose 

 portrait is given here, has been made the type of a 

 separate race, under the name of E. quagga greyi. 

 Names have also been proposed for other supposed 

 races, but these it will be unnecessary to quote.^ 



When the Boers first trekked north of the 

 Orange River they met, on the plains of what 

 is now the British Bechuanaland Protectorate, an 

 animal which they recognised as near akin to their 

 familiar quagga, but distinguished by its brighter 

 colouring and the extension of the striping on to 

 the hind half of the body, including the buttocks. 

 To this they gave the name bontequagga, signify- 

 ing painted or striped quagga. When the true 

 quagga disappeared from the country south of 

 the Orange River and became more or less com- 

 pletely forgotten, the prefix bonte was dropped, 

 and the northern animal took the name of its 

 southern cousin. In the year 1825 a skin of the 

 bontequagga brought to England by the traveller 



^ See Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.., ser. 7, vol, xiv. p. 313, 1904. 



