the Cape Colony Quaggas. 321 



an animal differing in certain features from the other two. 

 The forelock is equine and the tail asinine, the long hairs 

 being confined to its terminal half. Moreover, the stripes 

 on the neck are less sinuous and the narrow detached stripes 

 absent. The chestnut tint extends considerably lower on the 

 shoulder and fore part of the body, and the shoulder-stripe is 

 correspondingly longer. In the hairiness of the tail and the 

 straighter neck-stripes, this form exhibits an intermediate 

 stage between Edwards's Quagga [E. quagga quagga) and 

 Daniell's Quagga {E. quagga Dam'elli) — a gradation which, it 

 may be assumed, was exemplified by living animals, if the 

 hypothesis of the former existence of intermediate types 

 between the various forms of S. African quaggas is founded 

 on fact. 



With some reservation in favour of Hamilton Smith's figure, 

 the figures quoted in the above-given synonymy represent, I 

 believe, specimens of one and the same form of quagga, which, 

 according to the characters depicted, differs in my opinion 

 more from the quaggas called Greyi and Lorenzi than the 

 latter do from Burchelli. It appears impossible to explain 

 away these difierences, as Mr. Lydekker would do, on the plea 

 of carelessness in the execution of the drawings. Three 

 cogent reasons may be advanced against such a view. First, 

 the drawings are distinctly stated to have been taken from 

 living specimens ; and this statement, which must be accepted 

 as true, disposes of the objection that Harris and Smith may 

 have copied Daniell or that Smith copied Harris. Second, it is 

 almost incredible that these artists erred independently in the 

 same direction. Tlilrd, the rest of tlie drawings in the three 

 respective volumes are on the whole so good, often indeed so 

 excellent and so full of life, that it is again incredible that the 

 artists can have blundered in the case of the quaggas to 

 the extent necessary for the establishment of Mr. Lydekker's 

 hypothesis. Moreover, in Uaniell's drawing there are certain 

 details, like the whiteness of the mane, the presence of a tuft 

 of black hair on the fetlock, and of a black rim above the 

 hoof, which attest care and power of observation on the part 

 of the artist incompatible with carelessness in the copying of 

 the stripes on the neck and omitting them from the body, 

 if the animal before him had resembled the typical quagga. 



Again, it is significant that Cornwallis Harris, as Mr. 

 Lydekker astutely detected, worded the legend to the figure 

 of the quagga's skin attached as tailpiece to his description 

 of this speciCvS, '' Head and Skin of the Animal exhibited as a 

 Quagga at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park." This 

 may be interpreted as indicating a doubt in his mind as to 



