QUAGGA, or COUAGGA

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QUAGGA, or COUAGGA , an animal of the genus Equus (see HORSE), nearly allied to Burchell's zebra, formerly met with in vast herds on the

great

GREAT

plains of

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Africa between the Cape Colony and the Vaal river, but now completely

extinct

EXTINCT

. Generally speaking, the colour of the head, neck, and upper-parts of the

body

BODY

was reddish-brown, irregularly banded and marked with dark brown stripes, stronger on the head and neck and gradually becoming fainter until lost behind the

shoulder

SHOULDER (in O.E. sculder, cognate with Ger. Schulter, Dutch schouder, Swed. skuldra, &c; the root is unknown)

. There is a broad dark median dorsal stripe. The under surface of the

body

BODY

, the legs, and tail are nearly white, without stripes. The crest is very high, surmounted by a

standing

STANDING

mane, banded
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P~-y
The

Quagga

QUAGGA, or COUAGGA

(Equus

quagga

QUAGGA, or COUAGGA

).
alternately brown and white. It is, however, not improbable that there were two or more local races, for which

separate

SEPARATE

names have been proposed. Though never really domesticated, quaggas have occasionally been trained to

harness

HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch)

. The accompanying

illustration

ILLUSTRATION

is reduced from a painting made from one of two which were driven in Hyde Park by Mr. Sheriff Parkins in the early part of the 19th century. The name is an imitation of the shrill barking neigh of the animal, " oug-ga, oug-ga," the last syllable very much prolonged; it is also commonly applied to the bonnte-quagga, or Burchell's zebra (see HORSE and ZEBRA).

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