1. EQUUs. 263 



Equus, Liiin. 



Horses, Oray, Knowsley Menat/. p. 70 ; Cat. Ungulat. B. M, p. 2G7. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. EaTJTJs. Tail covered with long hair to the base. The fore and 



hind legs with a wart (seUander) on the inner side. Fur with 

 round jialc spots. 



2. AsiNus. Tail with short hairs at the base and long at the end. 



The hind legs without any wart on the inner side. Fur striped. 



1. Eauus. 



Tail covered with long hair to the root. The fur marked, dappled, 

 or coppered with round pale spots, leaving a dark network. The 

 fore and hind legs furnished with hard horny bodies, called warts or 

 chestnuts, on the inner side above the " knees " or " wrists " on the 

 fore legs, and below the hock or heel on the hinder ones. 



Equus, Linn. ; Gray, Zool. Journ. i. p. 261, 1825 ; Knowsley Metiag. ; 

 Cat. Unyulata, B. M. p. 263, t. 37. f. 1 (skull). 



The warts are rarely absent on the hind legs, for it is stated that 

 " the bay mare ' Eaglet ' was without sellanders on the hock-joint." 

 — Jamaica Times, 1845, Aug. 26. 



Equus caballus. (The Horse.) B.M. 



Brown, grey, or black, with roundish pale spots. 



Equus ferus, Pallas, Hoss.-Asiat. i. p. 260 ; EicJiw. Faun. Casp. Cane. 



p. 29. 

 Wilde Pferde, S. G. Gmelin, Reise Russland, i. p. 44, t. 9 (cop. Shaw, 



Zool. t. 414 ; Schreb. t. 109) ; Pallas, Eels. i. p. 211. 

 Takij a or Wild Horses, Hamvay, Hist. Caspian aScw, i. p. 349 ; Bell, 



Travels, i. p. 212 ; Smith, EquidcB, p. 146. 



Var. 1. Domestic. 



Equus antiqiiorum, Gesner, Quad. p. 132. 



Equus caballus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 100 ; Gmcl. S. K. i. p. 209 ; 

 Desm. Mamm. p. 416; F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 45o ; Fis- 

 cher, Syn. Mamm. p. 429 ; Gray, Zool. Jotim. i. p. 260 ; Cat. 3Iamm. 

 B. M. p. 263, t. 37. f. 1 (skull) ; List Mamm. B. M. p. 182 ; List 

 Osteol. B. M. p. 70 ; List Hod y son Coll. p. 35 ; Bcnyyer, I. c. p. 331 ; , 



Blainr. Ost^oyraph. Ouguligrades, t. 1. t. 2 (skeleton). /T^^ ^a/^. /cj 



Equus, l"]qua, Pliny, H. N. ; Gesner ; Pallas Z, JR.-A. i. p. f:-)5. 



Horse, Penn. B. Z. i. 



Generous Horse, Pvnn. Quad. 



Cheval, Buf. H. N. iv. p. 174 ; Cuvier, S. A. i. p. 243. 



Pferd, lledinycr. 



Ivoss, Schrank. 



The Horse, Yuuatt, The Horse, its History, Breeds, SfC., Ham. Smith, 

 Etpddte, Jardine's Naturalist's Library. 



The Tarpau Wild Horse (primaival bay stock), //. Smith, Fquidce, 

 p. 160, t. 3. 



The Andalusian Horse, H. Smith, Equidcf, p. 247. 



