32 DR. L, V. LORENZ ON THE [Jan. 14, 



o. On the Specimen o£ the Quagga in the Imperial Museum 

 o£ Natural History, Vienna. By Ludwig v. Lorenz, 

 C.M.Z.S. 



[Received November 25, 1901.] 



(Text-figure 7.) 



In the Zoological collection of our Museum there is a striped 

 Eqims named " Uqinos qiiagga" and until recently I have always 

 thought it was a Quagga of typical features, though the published 

 figures of that now extinct animal are rather difierent. But 

 when I visited the museums of Munich, Tring, London, Paris, 

 and Berlin last year, I discovered that the Quaggas which I saw 

 there were not quite in accordance with the specimen at Vienna. 

 I noticed them to be in general of somewhat different coloration — 

 more greyish or chocolate-brown on the upper parts, to have 

 narrower and perhaps more numerous dark stripes separated by 

 comparatively hroader light interspaces, and, moreover, they all 

 appeared to be of a smaller size. When I returned to Vienna I 

 asked my friend Marktanner (of the Museum in Graz) to photo- 

 graph our Quagga, and I had intended to send copies of the 

 photograph to different museums and to get others of the Quaggas 

 there in exchange. But difierent circumstances prevented me 

 from following the matter vip until October last, when I had the 

 pleasure of receiving a visit from Dr. P. L. Sclater ; and one of 

 his first questions was, what I thought about our Quagga, as it 

 seemed to him not quite identical with other specimens of this 

 Equus known to him. It was a great satisfaction to me that 

 such an authority as Dr. Sclater had come to the same conclusion 

 as I had done, and I am following his invitation in ofiering 

 to the Zoological Society of London an exact desci"iption of our 

 Quagga accompanied by one of the before-mentioned photographs. 

 Before writing this I examined the following figures of the Quagga, 

 which I propose to refer to as I proceed with my description : — 



Fig. I. — Bufibn's and Shaw's copies of Edwards's plate 

 (Gleanings of Nat. Hist. i. pis. 222 & 223) \ 

 though this figure seems to me to represent 

 rather Equus hurchelli. 



Fig. II. — Bufibn's and Schreber's copies of AUamand's young 

 Quagga. (AUamand's edition of Buflbn, Supple- 

 ment, V. pi. vi.) 



Fig. III. — Geoflroy St.-Hilaire and Ouvier's plate (Hist. Nat. 

 Mammif. pi. 320), also reproduced by Schinz 

 (Saugethiere, " Equus" pi. v.). 



Fig. IV. — Schreber's plate (vol. vi. pi. 317 a), representing 

 the Quagga of Munich acquired by Ecklon about 

 1835. 



^ Taken from the type of Equus quagga. 



