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membrane, (2) the coarse anatomy of the tapetum lucidum, 
(3) the organ for elevating the eyes in the Plaice. 
Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., F.Z.S., the Superintendent of the 
Gardens, exhibited the photographs of two Quaggas, more com- 
monly called Burchell’s Zebras, which were recently imported 
from Zululand by Herr Reiche, to whom Mr. Pocock was indebted 
for the photographs. He remarked :— 
“These two photographs represent two distinct races of the 
Quagga, using that term in its broad and correct sense *, both of 
special interest. The first (text-fig. 48) belongs to the race described 
by Gray as Hqwus burchelli, which should be called Burchell’s 
Text-fig. 48. 
Burchell’s Quagga (Equus quagga burchelli). 
Quagga (Hqwus quagga burchelli). Very few examples of this race 
appear to be in existence, either as living animals or museum spe- 
cimens. Ina wild state it is either verging on extinction or wholly 
extinct. It was originally recorded from British Bechuanaland, 
and there seems to be no reliable evidence of its occurrence 
elsewhere. No great importance can be attached to the fact that 
the specimen in question is alleged to have come from Zululand, 
because, as the photograph shows, the animal wears a head-stal 
* Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) x. p. 306, 1902. 
