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PROF. AV. RIDGEWAY OX 



:Mayll, 



of the interspaces between the stripes on the body and neck, it 

 more resembles some of the recorded examples of E. quagga 

 hurchelli than any of the extinct Quaggas hitherto described and 

 fignred. It surpasses even the Vienna specimen in the cogency 

 of the evidence it supplies of the closeness of the afitinity between 

 the extinct and existing members of this species. Apart, indeed, 

 from its browner tint, due to the lightening of the stripes and 

 the darkening of the interspaces, I cannot detect one single im- 

 portant character in which this Quagga differs, for example, from 

 the specimen of Burehell's Quagga in the Bristol Museum. 



Text-fio-. 160. 



The Stockholm (Sparrman's) Quagga, 1775. 



" I am greatly indebted to Mr. Rothschild for giving me more 

 than one opportunity of examining this Quagga at Tring and also 

 for very kindly supplying me with a photograph of the' animal 

 from which Prof. Ridgeway has had the subjoined block prepared.'' 



V. The Stcckholni specimen (text-iigs. 160 t 161). This 

 specimen has a peculiar interest, as it is not only the oldest extant 

 specimen, but is the "full-grown fo3tus " brought home by 



