London Quagga
Catalogue number : 1864.7.2.3. (old number: 1449a)
Sex: female
Locality: -
Date of acquisition: 1864
History of mount: original mount of straw
Measurements:
head - body |
2,400 m |
tail |
0,410 m |
ear |
0,165 m |
hindfoot, left |
0,480 m |
hindfoot, right |
0,440 m |
shoulder height |
1,180 m |
State of preservation: poor, left ear off but present; skin cracked; crude repairs
Further material of same individual: the complete skeleton in the collection, which was
believed to belong to this skin, is that of a male and is probably that of the third
London Zoo quagga whose skin is considered to be the one at the Wiesbaden Museum.
References: Lydekker (1904); Renshaw (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Flower (1929);
Antonius (1931)
