2. AsiNus. 269 



Onag-re d'Abyssinie, /. Geoffr. 

 Wild Ass, Blyth. 

 Wilder Esel, Lesson. 



Hub. Abyssima, North-eastern Africa, in a wild state. 

 The ears are long and acute, and it brays distinctly, like the Domestic 

 Ass. Other -wild asses have a mule-like, shrieking bray. — Bhjth. 



tt Ears moderately short, rounded. The Wild Asses. 



2. Asinus onager. (The Koulan or Wild Ass.) B.M. 



Pale reddish (in winter greyish) ; dorsal streak black, rather wider 

 over the small of the back ; skull with the infraorbital foramen high 

 up, about one-thii'd the space between the face-line and the back 

 edge of the teeth, far back, being dia-ectly over the front end of the 

 cheek ridge and the back edge of the' third grinder. 



Asinus sylvestris, Plht. Hist. Nat. viii. p. 44. 



Onager, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. p. 44 ; Raii Quad. p. 6 ; Pall. Act. Acad. 



Soc. Imp. Petrop. 1777, p. 258, t. 11 ; Neue Nord. £ei/tr. ii. p. 22, 



t. 2, iv. p. 80. 

 Equus asinus onager, Schred. Siiugeth. t. 312. --/'>'// /7<" 

 Equus onager, Brisson, Pl-g. Anim. ; Pallas. ./hUr/i CaV-Jt- • fJ f 

 Wild Ass, Bell, Travels, i. p. 212 ; Heber's Travels. 

 Koidan or Wild Ass, Penn. Quad. 

 Equus hemionus (Wild Ass of Kutch and the Indus), Si/lies, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 18.37, p. 91 (not Pallas) ; I. Geoff. Nouv. Ann. Mm. H. N. 



iv. p. 97, t. 2 , .3 years old. 

 Asinus hemionus. Gray, Osteol. Spec. B. M. ; H. Smith, Hquid^e, 



p. 316, t. 20; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 29; Knowsley Menag. 



p. 71. 

 Asinus onager. Gray, Cat. Ungtdcda B. M. p. 269. 

 Equus Khm- (Ane Khur) , Lesson, Manuel Mamm. p. 347, 1827. 

 Wild Ass or Gour, Ker Porter, Travels Georgia, Persia, i. p. 460. 

 Wild Ass or Khur of the Persians, Isis, 1823, p. 764. 

 Onager, Xenophon ; Barhoza, Collect. Ramusio. i. p. 300, b. {Malabar 



and Golconda). 

 Hemione or Dziggtai, Lesson, Comp. Buffon, x. p. 379 (fromGeoffroy) ; 



F. Cuvier, 3Iamm. IB23 (not Pallas). 

 The Hjonar or Hamar of Mesopotamia, H. Smith, Eqiiidce, p. 313. 

 Asinus Ilamar (the Hamar), H. Smith, Equidce, t. 19. 

 Chamor of the Hebrews. 



Hah. The Plains of Mesopotamia (B.M.) ; Persia. Kutch, shores 

 of the Indus, Punjab. /J-'t^/ d^j2. i^^' ^. l^. C^ J^» J*. 



In the British Museum is a skuU and bones of body from India, 

 Kutch, presented by the Earl of Derby. 



They are abundant in Mesopotamia, and are evidently the Wild 

 Ass of Xenophon. The adults arc very difficult to approach within 

 rilic-rangc. The young are sometimes caught alive. — Lagard. 



The Khur inhabits the deserts of Persia in troops, frequenting the 

 hiUs in summer and the plains in winter. 



Pallas, in a paper entitled " Observations sur I'Asne dans son etat 



