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A YOUNG KYANG OR TIBETAN WILD ASS 

 {EQUUS flEMlONUSy 



BY 



F. M. Bailey. 



( W ith Plate A.) 



1 send you two photos of a young teimle Kyang (^. /,.„,/,,,,) 



together with a photo of the mother which I was obliged to shoot 



before I could capture the young. I caught the young one on the 



nth August 1908, near Dochen, Tibet, at an altitude of 14 700 feet 



The age then, as shown by the teeth, was about ten days and tLe heioht 



at the shoulder was about 31 inches. After the mother was shot The 



young one was chased on ponies till she reached marshy ground 'over 



which It was impossible to ride ; .ut as soon as we ceased ridino- after 



her she came quite fearlessly up to a pony and allowed herself^o be 



captured. The first photograph shows the young Kyang immediately 



m' r 1? \^ ,f^^^^-^ '^ «^- ^he same animal when about 

 4 months old. At the time of writing she is ^ months of ace and 

 measures 43 inches in height at the shoulder. This animal I now 

 quite tame and teeds readily from the hand and follows her foster 



T^Z.^'^^^^^^^ but her temper is somewhat 



unceitain The movements are graceful and she readily jumps the 

 ; tehes whic irrigate the country round Gyantse. The pho ogr h of 

 >heead mother (fig. 3.) gives a good idea of the large bar: plain 

 which these anhnals inhabit. ^ 



The following are the measurements of the adult in the photooniph- 

 Head and body ; ^^^^,7 ^ 



Tail (without end hairs) '*"'" j^i" 



Height at shoulder !!!!*"'." 48J-" 



Total length from nose to tip of tail ulu 



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