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(7) A stuflfed Qiiagga and skull is preserved at Munich. 



(^) There is another stuffed example at Mainz. 



(!)) The Director of the Senokenhergian Museum at Frank- 

 fort-on-Main kindly informs me that the collection includes a 

 stuffed Quagga and its cranium, obtained in South Africa in 18;} 1. 



(10) Dr. Sceindachner informs me that the Vienna Natural 

 History Museum has a good stuffed example of Equus quagga, 

 but no skeleton. 



(11) Stockholm. Great interest attaches to the little Stock- 

 holm specimen. It appears to be the only foetal specimen in 

 existence, and is more than a century old, having been brought 

 home by Sparrman himself. It is thus the most venerable relic 

 of the QuHgga in existence. From a photograph very kindly 

 forwarded by Mr. F. A. Smith, it appears that the coloration is 

 much as in the adult. 



South Africa. — After repeated inquiries it appears that the 

 only specimen preserved in all South Africa (the former home of 

 the species, wheie its teeming numbers flourished so abundantly 

 in the old days) is in the Capetown Museum ! Mr. W. L. Sclater 

 has very kindly f»»rvvarded me a piiotograph of this Quagga, and 

 informs me that it was presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Dale, 

 of Beaufort West, previous to 1H62. As Sparrman's Quagga is 

 the oi]]y foetus, so it appears that the Capetown Quagga is the 

 only/o(/Z in existence. The rough coat of the young animal is 

 well shown in the photograph. 



This completes the census. After much correspondence I 

 learn that there are no specimens of Equus quagga in the Museums 

 of Aberdeen, Brussels, Breslau, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dresden, 

 Dublin, Durban, Florence, Geneva, Grahamstown, Hamburg, 

 New York, Oxford, Prague, Pretoria, Pietermaritzburg, and 

 Washington. The so-called Quagga at Bristol is only Equus 

 hurchellii. 



Amongst the natural history specimens sold at Stevens's 

 Rooms on Aug. 22nd, 18U9, was " Lot 240. Skin of Quagfga, 

 now extinct." I have been unable to authenticate or trace this 

 specimen. 



And so the curtain rings down on Equus quagga, one of the 

 finest, most interesting, and most docile of the fast vanishing 

 African fauna — a species which might have been of great value in 



