1. Asinus vulgaris. (The Domestic Ass.) B.M. 



Grey, with a longitudraal dorsal streak and a dark streak across 

 the shoulders ; ears elongate ; facial line arched. Skull with sub- 

 orbital foramen as in E. hemionus. . . 



Equus asinus, Linn. ; Pallas, Zooc/r. R.-A. i. p. 2G.3. ^yT ' 



Asians vulgaris, Gray, Zool. Juurn. i. p. 244 ; Knowsley Menay. p. 71 ; 



Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 268. 

 Equus asina, Fleming, Phil. Zool. ii. 

 Asinus, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. p. 44. 

 Ass, Penn. ; Bewick. 

 Asne, Buffon. 

 Ane, Cuvier. 



Asians onager, " Gray,'''' Bonap. Index Mamm. Eur. p. .34, 184-5. 

 Asinus domesticus (Domestic Ass), II. Smith, Eqnidce, p. 314. 

 Equus hemippus, Geoff. Compt. Bend. xli. ; Ecv. de Zool. vii. p. 39.3. 



Hab. Palmory and Bagdad. 



Var. 1. Without any cross. 



Var. 2. Legs and body more or less banded. 



Var. 3. Domestic. 



Guddha of the Mahrattas (veiy little larger than a good mastill" or 



Newfoundland dog), Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831. 

 Domestic Ass of Ispahan, II. Smith, Eqidd(P, p. 314. 

 Domestic Ass of Beloochistan, H. Smith, Equid(P, p. 314. 

 Domestic Ass of Thibet, with a cross band, Strachey. 

 The Pico of ancient Egypt, H. Smith, Efpddcf, p. 314. 

 Tasandunt of the SheUuhs, H. Smith, Eqiiidce, p. 314. 

 The Djaar of Ai-ahia, H. Smith, Equidfc, p. 311. 

 The Lalisiones or Wild Ass Colts, H. Smith, EquidcB, p. 311. 

 Lalisio, Martial, xiii. p. 97. 



Wild Ass, Le7iant, Voy. on the Bahar el Ahad ; Hoskins, Travels in 

 Ethiopia. 

 . Egyptian Ass, H. Smith, Equidce, p. 312. 



Osteology. 



Asne, Dauhenton, Buffon, H. N. iv. \. 12, 13. 



Hah. Europe, Asia, and Africa, always domesticated. 



The common Domestic Ass is sometimes of the usual grey colour, 

 without any appearance of the cross. They are sometimes black, 

 and at others white, rarely skewbald ; but this is the common albi- 

 nism and melanism of domestic animals, and when of these colours 

 the cross is not apparent, or at least sometimes only to be seen when 

 the animal is observed obliquely. The legs are generally destitute of 

 cross bands, but they are often seen more or less distinctly cross- 

 banded, especially just over the hocks (the Eibbon-legged Ass, A. 

 vulrjaris fasciatus, Gray, Zool. Joum. i. p. 245, and Guddhas of India), 



Var. 4. tceniopus. Zool. Gardens. 



Equus tseniopus, Heuylin, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 374. 

 Zeiu-a, Loho, Abyssinia, i. p. 291. 



