PLATE II. 
EQUUS QUAGGA.—THE QUAGGA. 
Couagga or Quagga of the Cape Colonists. 
GENERIC CHARACTER.—Adult male stands four feet six inches high at the wither, and measures eight feet six inches in 
extreme length. Form compact. Barrel round. Limbs robust, clean and sinewy. Head light and bony ; of a bay colour, covered on 
the forehead and temples with longitudinal, and on the cheeks, with narrow transversal stripes, forming linear triangular figures 
between the eyes and mouth. Muzzle black. Ears and tail strictly equine; the latter white, and flowing below the hocks. Crest 
very high, arched, and surmounted by a full standing mane, which appears as though it had been hogged, and is banded alternately 
brown and white. Colour of the neck and upper parts of the body, dark rufous brown, becoming gradually more fulvous, and fading off 
to white behind and beneath ;—the upper portions banded and brindled with dark brown stripes, stronger, broader, and more regular, 
on the neck ; but gradually waxing fainter, until lost behind the shoulder in spots and blotches. Dorsal line dark and broad, widening 
over the crupper. Legs white, with bare spots inside above the knees. 
Female precisely similar. Has an udder with four mammz. Still found within the Cape Colony. Inhabits the open plains 
south of the Vaal river in immense herds. 
