81 NOTICE 01- ADDITIONAL SPECIES 



China. Bell continues, — " In the same woods is found another 

 species of oxen, called Buhul by the Tartars [obviously the 

 yack]. It is not so large as the urus ; its body and limbs are 

 very handsome ; it has a high shoulder and flowing tail, with 

 long hair growing from the rump to its extremity, like that of 

 a horse. Those which I saw were tame, and as tractable as 

 other cattle." But to return to the Equi. 



The Djigguitai [Equus hemionus, Pallas), a well-known 

 Asiatic species, with a broad, dark, mesial stripe Aown the 

 back, widening upon the croup ; and which undoubtedly is 

 extensively diffused, though at present much confounded with 

 others. Such is 



The Khur, or wild ass of Persia, so celebrated for its fleet- 

 ness ; and observed near Mount Taurus by Mr. Ainsworth 

 ('Travels in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea,' page 41). — 

 The most detailed notice occurs in Sir R. Ker Porter's Tra- 

 vels (vol. i. page 459), where there is also a coloured figure 

 of the animal. "The sun was just rising," observes Sir Ro- 

 bert, "over the summits of the eastern mountains, when my 

 greyhound suddenly darted off" in pursuit of an animal, which 

 my Persians said, from the glimpse they had of it, was an an- 

 telope. I instantly put spurs to my horse, and, with my at- 

 tendants, gave chace. After an unrelaxed gallop of full three 

 miles, we came up with the dog, who was then within a short 

 stretch of the creature he pursued ; and to my surprise, and, 

 at first, vexation, I saw it to be an ass. Upon a moment's 

 reflection, however, judging from its fleetness that it must be 

 a wild one, a creature little known in Europe, but which the 

 Persians prize above all other animals as an object of chase, 

 I determined to approach as near to it as the very swift Arab 

 I was on would carry me. But the single instant of check- 

 ing my horse to consider, had given our game such a head of 

 us, that notwithstanding all our speed we could not recover 

 our ground on him. I, however, happened to be considera- 

 bly before my companions, when, at a certain distance, the 

 animal in its turn made a pause, and allowed me to approach 

 within pistol-shot of him. He then darted off" again with the 

 quickness of thought ; capering, kicking, and sporting in his 

 flight, as if he were not blown in the least, and the chase were 

 his pastime. 



" He appeared to me to be about ten or twelve hands high; 

 the skin smooth, like a deer's, and of a reddish colour ; the 

 belly and hinder parts partaking of a silvery grey ; his neck 

 was finer than that of a common ass, being longer, and bend- 

 ing like a stag's ; and his legs beautifully slender : the head 

 and cars seemed large in proportion to the gracefulness of 



