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6. Buffon's QiUagga. — My illustration (text- fig. 177) is from 

 that in Buffon's ' Histoire Naturelle,' vol, x. p. 112 sqq., pi. ii. 

 (1787). The description of the quagga there given and the 

 drawing from which the engraving was taken (here reproduced) 



Text-fig. 177. 



Buffon's Quagga : from Gordou's drawing. 



were obtained from a Mr. Gordon, who (dans le pays des Bosjemans 

 fort eloigne de toute habitation) made a drawing from a young 

 quagga, which he had cut off from a herd of females with their 

 foals, and which followed his horse (p. 115). 



7. Hamilton Smith's Quagga {supra, p. 567). (Text-fig. 178.) 



