1909.] UNRECORDED SPECIMENS OF THE QUAGGA. 567 



Main *. I have arranged all the specimens in a series according 

 to the amount of striping in each specimen. This will serve to 

 show the relation of the Basel Qnagga to those already familiar. 

 Whenever I could ascertain the provenance of the specimen and 

 its date, I have given it. The sequence shows that the process of 

 self-divesting of the stripes from the hoofs upwards, which we can 

 trace in the Bui'chelline Zebras from Grant's variety in North- 

 east Africa downwards (text-figs. 144-8, sup-a), continued in 

 operation amongst the Quaggas of Orange River and Cape Colony. 

 Scanty as the evidence is, it rendei's it clear that if we had more 

 specimens we could trace every stage in the process and we would 

 find, that as in British East Africa the Zebras vary from area to 

 area, so was it also with the Quaggas of Cape Colony. In addi- 

 tion to the reproductions of the extant specimens in mviseums as 

 well as York's photograph of the female Quagga which lived in 

 the Regent's Park from 1851 to 1872, 1 have reproduced the chief 

 pictures of Quaggas drawn from living specimens. There has 

 been in the past much discussion as to whether the drawings of 

 Edwards, Cornwallis Harris, Hamilton Smith, and Daniell are 

 trustworthy, because the animals pourtrayed diflTer in coloration 

 i7iter se and also from the extant museum specimens. But a 

 comparison of the illustrations from the j^ictures with those 

 from the extant specimens, and from York's photograph, and the 

 descriptions of such men as Cornwallis Harris, will convince 

 the reader that the pictures of Edwaixls, Harris, Daniell, and 

 Hamilton Smith, though differing from each other, and from 

 some of the extant specimens, show forms quite in keeping with 

 what might be expected in other specimens of Quaggas. 



Cornwallis Harris, who had studied the Quagga from life in 

 its haunts (' Wild Sports of Southern Africa,' p. 48), has left us 

 in his ' Portraits of the Game Animals of Southern Africa ' 

 (1841) a picture of an animal (text- fig. 180, p. 586) with less 

 striping than Daniell's (text-fig. 179), Harris was drawing from 

 animals that he saw around him, and had he not seen such 

 variations, he would have given lis an animal striped like the 

 skin drawn by himself (text-fig. 175, p. 583). Again Hawkins t, 

 in his drawing from life of the Knowsley quaggas (text-fig. 174), 

 shows animals of different degrees of striping. But his picture 

 is in accord with the evidence of the extant skins. 



III. The Vienna specimen (text-fig. 158, p. 568), a female. This 

 specimen has been fvilly described by Dr. Lorenz (P. Z. S. 1902, 

 vol. i. pp. 32 sqq.), with an illustration taken from a photograph 

 made for Dr. Lorenz by Herr Custos Marktanner, of Gratz, from 

 whose negative the photograph here repi'oduced is also taken 

 (having been obtained for me by Dr. Karl Toldt, of the Vienna 



* Mr. G. Renshaw (Nat. Hist. Essays, 1904, p. 192) gives both in his list, and 

 one at Berne (p. 191). Eut the Director of that Museum tells me that this is a 

 mistake. 



t ' Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviarj- at Knowslej^ Hall ' (J. E. Gray and 

 Waterhonse Hawkins : Knowsley, 1851). 



