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Show 1902.] QUAGGA OP THE VIENNA MUSEUM. 37 to iv. It may be recognized on v. and vi. and on the photo (xi.), as also the bands on the quarters, but they are not seen in fig. x., which represents the same individual. This reminds one of Equus burchelli. together a kind of saddle, as is the case in all striped horses of the burchelli-group. The fifth band takes an oblique direction throughout, running as well as the sixth over the haunches, both becoming gradually narrower at their upper ends, and not quite reaching the dorsal band. A seventh, somewhat narrower but still distinct, although twice interrupted, stripe takes a direction from the groin and goes over the haunches to the root of the tail without reaching it. Between the 6th and 7th stripe is an indistinct short band. Three or four other oblique and gradually fading stripes are observable on the back of the haunches. On comparing the stripes and bands of our Quagga with the pictures of the other Quaggas and with the various forms of the Zebras of the Burchell-group, there seems to me no question that the Quaggas belong to that group. I also have the impression that, in spite of the variability of the marking, the examination of sufficient material would result in ascertaining the existence of homologous stripes in the group above mentioned. From a further careful comparison of all the different figures, and especially of the original picture of Edwards, with the stuffed specimens, or at least with photos of them, we could perhaps obtain sufficient answers to the following questions :-• (1) Is the Vienna Quagga specifically the same as Edwards's Quagga ? (2) Can other so-called Quaggas (as, for instance, those of the British Museum and of the Tring Museum) be identified with Edwards's Quagga, notwithstanding the differences pointed out so exactly by Mr. Pocock ? (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, xx. P-3 7)- (3) Can the Vienna Quagga be identified with the Quaggas of London and Tring ? To these questions I would only reply provisionally that the differences between Edwards's picture and the Vienna, London, Tring, and other specimens are certainly more essential than the differences between the Vienna Quagga on one side and the London, Tring, and other Quaggas on the other. Edwards's Quagga, as already remarked, much resembles Equus burchelli in some respects-e. g., in the black stripes, well defined on the head and extremely narrow on the neck, and in the tufted tail. As to the Vienna specimen, it is possible that its characters |