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this animal gave birth to a curious hybrid, the father of which 

 was an Asiatic Wihi Ass {Equus hemionus). 



(5, 6, 7) Three QiiHggas (not two as I have seen stated) have 

 been exhibited by tlie Zoological Society of London— (^) an 

 animal which died fully adult, as I judge from examining the 

 skull, some time previous to 1838 (skin and skeleton mentioned 

 in Waterhouse's old catalogue) ; (b) a female purchased in 1851 ; 

 (c) a male, presented by Sir George Grey in 1858. This animal 

 was photographed alive in 1872, when its wild brethren were 

 already in the throes of extermination. 



(8) A Quagga was formerly exhibited alive at the Berlin 

 Zoological Gardens ; its skin and skeleton are now in the Museum 

 fiir Natiirkunde. 



(9, 10, 11?) '• Several "*Quaggas were obtained about 1870 by 

 the Belgian consul at Port Elizabeth, and sent to the Antwerp 

 Zoological Gardens. 



No Quagga foals have ever been born in captivity. After 

 careful inquiry, I learn that this species, has never been exhibited 

 in the Zoological Gardens of Bristol, Cologne, Dublin, Frankfort- 

 on-Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Lisbon, Marseilles, or Rotterdam. 

 Thus ends the brief record of the living animal, which has passed 

 away for ever, with all its latent qualities for domestication un- 

 used, and even its habits but imperfectly known. 



To turn to the last portion of this essay : the census of known 

 remains — a melancholy inventory at best. In 1898 I contributed 

 a short article to ' The Zoologist ' on " Existing Specimens of 

 Equus quagga,^' giving only a very short list, and suggesting that 

 somebody should take the matter up, and compile a complete 

 census of relics, little thinking that one day I should myself essay 

 the task. The results of a laborious undertaking are here sum- 

 marised ; and I hasten to express my thanks to all those scientific 

 gentlemen who in Europe, South Africa, and the United States 

 have so kindly aided me with information. The census is as 

 follows : — 



The United Kingdom.— (l) The newly-mounted old skin of the 

 first Quagga possessed by the Zoological Society of London now 

 stands in the Mammal Gallery of the Natural History Museum 

 at South Kensington. It seems probable that this is the identical 

 skin which Harris figures' at the end of the article " Quagga," 



