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QUAGGA, or COUAGGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUAGGA, or COUAGGA , an See also:animal of the genus Equus (see See also:HORSE), nearly allied to Burchell's See also:zebra, formerly met with in vast herds on the See also:great plains of See also:South See also:Africa between the Cape See also:Colony and the See also:Vaal See also:river, but now completely See also:extinct. Generally speaking, the See also:colour of the See also:head, See also:neck, and upper-parts of the See also:body was reddish-See also:brown, irregularly banded and marked with dark brown stripes, stronger on the head and neck and gradually becoming fainter until lost behind the See also:shoulder. There is a broad dark median dorsal stripe. The under See also:surface of the body, the legs, and tail are nearly See also:white, without stripes. The See also:crest is very high, surmounted by a See also:standing mane, banded ' P~-y The Quagga (Equus quagga). alternately brown and white. It is, however, not improbable that there were two or more See also:local races, for which See also:separate names have been proposed. Though never really domesticated, quaggas have occasionally been trained to See also:harness. The accompanying See also:illustration is reduced from a See also:painting made from one of two which were driven in See also:Hyde See also:Park by Mr. See also:Sheriff Parkins in the See also:early See also:part of the 19th See also:century. The name is an See also:imitation of the shrill See also: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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