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1879, we may perhaps compute that the animals in the Free State 

 may have strufryled on for about ten years longer at least tlinn 

 those in the Colony. Like the American Bison, the Qungga was 

 so rHpi(ily exterminated that its loss was never suspected until 

 too late to prevent it; whilst the erroneous name "Qiiagtia" 

 (still employed by those who should know bettei), being conferred 

 on both species of Zebra in South Africa, encouraged the belief 

 that the true owners of the name had not been lost after all. 

 Again and again one reads that " the rare animal the Qnagga " 

 has again turned up, but when the Sea-serpent has been captured 

 one may believe in Qnagga stories also ; for all these cases, when 

 investigated by competent persons, turn out to refer to Zebras. 

 The true Qaagga is gone for ever. Reqniescat in pare ! 



When an animal becomes extinct, Science mournfully treasures 

 up the records of its existence, and enumerates with dismal care 

 the poor renmants of t-kin and bone {literally, skm and bone) 

 that may exif't, a poor exchange for the life of a fine species. The 

 Great Auk has its historians ; the Labrador Ducks, a silent 

 naticm, lie in stuffed stillness, redolent of naphthaline, in the 

 draweis of a few known cabinets. Similarly I liave tliought it 

 might be valuable to brother zoologists if I collected a list of all 

 specimens, living and dead, which have represented Equus qnagga, 

 either alive in Zoological Gardens, or as prepared specimens in 

 Zoological Museums. 



After immense labour and correspondence, it appears that the 

 following Quaggas have figured amongst the attractions of 

 European menageries ; — ■ 



(1) The Windsor Quagga, imported into England during the 

 eighteenth century, and kept at Windsor as the property of the 

 then Prince of Wales. 



(2) The late Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards informed me, only 

 a month before his lamented death, that the famous Jardin des 

 Plantes at Paris had once possessed a Qnagga, which lived to 

 eigliteen or twenty years of age in the menagerie. It was described 

 by Cuvier in 1821. 



(3, 4) A pair of Quaggas formed one of the varied attractions 

 of the great Knowsley menagerie. On the death of Lord Derby 

 in 1851 the menagerie was sold, and the female Qaagga purchased 

 for the Amsterdam Zoological Gardens. Some time afterwards 



