2. AsiNus. 267 



Darwdn gives an interesting description of the breaking-in of the 

 ■wild young horses of Banda Oriental. — Journal, p. 151. 



Horses do not breed on the southern face of the Himalayas, but 

 are imported from Thibet. — Mimdy, Journ. ii. p. 75 ; Ogilby in 

 lioj/Ie, Hlmal. i. Lxxi. 



Skins of horses are used for cloth, to make churns, &c. — Simpson, 

 Overland Journey, ii. p, 307. 



The roundish marks are called copper-marhed in brown, dappled 

 in grey horses. These marks become more visible in the brown 

 horses when the)' are in high condition. 



Horses are technically called according to their colours. Bay — 

 brown, with black mane and tail ; some have black legs, they are 

 then called bay with black points. Chestnut — red-brown, either 

 dark or light. Brown — nearly black ; if they have a tan mouth 

 they are called hroivn-muzzles. Blach. Dun-colour. Roan, Straw- 

 berry — very red-grey. Piebald — with three colours. SJceivbald, 

 — two colours. Cream -colour. The white mark on the forehead is 

 a star ; if down the face, a blaze. 



2. ASINUS. (The Zebras.) 



The upper part of the tail covered with short hair, and the lower 

 part covered ■\nth longer hair forming a tuft ; the fur marked with 

 darker stripes ; the fore legs only furnished with hard horny warts 

 in a similar situation to those in the front legs of the Horse, but 

 there are none in the lower part of the hinder legs. Fur marked 

 with a dorsal and more or less distinct humeral stripes. 



Asinus, Gray, Zuol. Journ. i. p. 2G1 ; Cat. 3Iamm. B. M. p. 268, t. 37. 

 f. 2 (skull j. 



* Colour nearly uniform, with a dark longitudinal dorsal stHpe ; some hare 

 a black stripe across the shoulders. The Asses of Asia. 



Asses of Asia, Gray, Knoicsley Menag. p. 74. 



t Ears elongated, aciUe. The Tame or Domestic Asses. 



These animals vary greatly in size and appearance according to 

 the climate. They are large and smooth-haired in the warmer 

 climates ; small and shaggy in the colder countries. 



It is very doubtfid if the Domestic Ass is found in a truly M-ild 

 state ; the asses which have been described as wUd appear rather 

 to be domestic animals which have escaped, or mules between the 

 Domestic Ass and the allied wUd species; for when caught they, 

 after a short time, submit themselves to man, which is not the case 

 with what I have here considered the wild kinds. 



PaUas justly obser^-es, " In extensis AsiiE desertis primam patriam 

 esse quajrendam Equi feri et Onagri a Nomadibus in domesticos usus 

 domatorum, sii\u.e ac Hemioni hactenus indomiti.'' — Zooyr. Bosso-A. 

 i. p. 255. This is equally applic;ible to the African species. 



