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specimen of which the skin was exhibited in the Society’s 
old museum in 1838, or thereabouts. These, however, 
were by no means the only specimens brought alive to 
England, for as early as 1815 one was in the possession 
of Lord Morton, while somewhat later on in the last 
century Mr. Sheriff Parkins was in the habit of driving 
two quaggas in a phaeton about London, and in narrating 
this circumstance the late Colonel Hamilton Smith men- 
tions that he himself had been drawn in a gig by one of 
these animals, which showed “ as much temper and delicacy 
of mouth as any domestic horse.” Another quagga was 
in the possession of a former Prince of Wales, and there 
are records of others in England. The skulls of the two 
driven by Mr. Parkins, as well as a portrait of one of 
them, are preserved in the Museum of the Royal College 
of Surgeons. 
In addition to the specimens in the British, Edinburgh, and 
Tring museums, several skins are preserved on the Con- 
tinent. With one exception, all appear to be of the same 
general type as the London example photographed by Messrs. 
York in 1870. The exception is one in the Imperial Museum 
at Vienna, of which a description and photograph have 
recently been published by the Director, Dr. L. von Lorenz, 
in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 
Unfortunately there is no record as to the locality where 
the Vienna specimen (which is a female) was obtained, all 
that is known being that it was acquired by purchase 
in 1836. 
Compared with the ordinary type of quagga, as exemplified 
by York’s photograph, the Vienna animal is of somewhat 
larger dimensions, with a creamy buff (instead of greyish or 
chocolate-brown) ground-colour on the upper parts, with the 
exception of the head, which is clay-brown. A more striking 
