1909.] 



UNRECORDED SPECIMEXS OF THE QUAGGA. 



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sagacity we are enabled to add another specimen to the list of 

 Quaggas preserved in our museums. Most fortunate it was that 

 York photographed the female Quagga in the Gardens, for 

 although her skeleton maj^ be preserved in some museum, all 

 record of her external appearance would have been lost. 



yill. The Female Quagga photographed hy York (text- 

 fig. 164). For this illustration I have to thank the Director of 

 the British Museum, who has permitted me, with Mr. Lydekker's 

 approval, to reproduce the fig. 22 in the ' Guide to tlie Specimens 



Text-fiff. 164. 



Female, Regent's Park (1851-72). Photographed from life bj^ F. York. 



of the Horse Family' (p. 33). Fi'om what has been said under 

 " The British Museum specimen " siqjra, it is clear that York's 

 photograph, taken (1870 or 1872) from the only living quagga 

 ever photographed, represents the female which lived in the 

 Gardens from 1851 to 1872, and not the specimen now in the 

 British Museum. 



IX. The Edinburgh specimen (text-fig. 165). The Edinburgh 

 specimen has no provenance except Cape of Good Hope. It was 

 purchased by the University of Edinburgh for their " College 

 Museum " during the year ending June 1818, for the sum of one 

 guinea, and it was afterwards transferred to the Royal Scottish 



