1909.] 



UNRECORDED SPECIMEXS OF THE QUAGGA. 



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Sparrman in 1775*. For the two illustrations I am indebted to 

 my friend Prof. Dr. Lonnberg, the Keeper of the Natural History- 

 Museum, Stockholm, who has also given me the notes here 

 embodied. Text-fig. 160 is from a photograph taken before the 

 dust of a century was i-emoved from the animal. Text-fig. 161 is 

 from a painting made by the Stockholm artist Mr. S. Ekblon for 

 Dr. Lonnberg of the specimen after it was cleaned. Dr. Lonnberg 

 has most generously put this picture at my disposal, and he tells me 



Text-fio-. 161. 



The Stockholm (Span-man's) Quagga (from a painting). 



that " it represents a careful copy of the pattern of the right side, 

 which is not fully identical with that on the left "' (represented by 

 the photograph, text-fig. 160). "The light patch on the rump in 

 the photograph is due to the fact that the specimen had not been 

 fully cleaned when the photographer had it.'' In answer to my 

 query Dr. Lonnberg writes that " the brown of the stripes may be 

 a little bleached, but only a little ; the light ground colour is of 



* ' Voyage to Cape of Good Hope, etc.', Engl, trans. (Perth, 1789), vol. i. p. 190. 

 Sparrman gives its measurements : "from ears to tail 31 inches ; height at loins 22." 



