2. AsiNus. 271 



racter which separates the E. hemionus from the E. onager. He 

 further observes that the Mongoliaus have no particular uame for 

 the E. onager of Pallas ; the Tartars no name for E. hemionus : the 

 Mongolians called the E. hemionus "Dshiggetei," or more properly 

 " Tschikitei," meaning lowi ears, and the Tartars caU the E. onager 

 " Kulan." 



Eversmann remarks that PaUas (N. Nord. Beytr. ii. p. 34) states 

 that the male M. Hablizl brought from Persia had no cross, but 

 that the female which was shot on the Miu'ecy had one. He pro- 

 ceeds to calculate the length of the ears of these animals, com- 

 pared \v\ih. the other measurements of them, and he tinds that the 

 ears of the male appear to be considerably (near 2 inches) shorter in 

 proportion than the ears of the female (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 

 1840, p. 57). 



The Mule with Asinus clomesticus has the short smooth fur exactly 

 like the sire, but with a short narrow cross band on the shoulder, 

 the ears rather longer and black-tipped. 



3. Asinus hemionus. (The Xiang.) B.M. 



Fur short, smooth, bright red-bay ; legs straw-colour (in winter 

 long, rather wooUy, greyish, legs whitish), with a broad longitudinal 

 dorsal streak, broadest over the small of the back, without any cross 

 band on shoulders. Skull — the infraorbital foramen low do^\Ti, in 

 the centre of the space between the face-line and the base of the 

 teeth, and placed in a Line over the back edge of the second grinder, 

 some distance in front of the end of the cheek-ridge. 



Midiis dauricus foecundus, Messersch. MSS. 



Equus hemionus, Pal/as, Kuv. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 394, t. 7 (cop. 



Neiie A'ord. Beytr. ii. p. 31, t. 1) ; Reise, iii. p. 217 (cop. Schreber, 



SiiiH/eth. t. 311) ; Eichic. Faun. Casp. Caur. 

 Equus hemionus (Kian^^), Oejilhij, inlioyh; Ilimal. i. p. Ixxi ; Walker, 



Jotirn. Asiat. Sue. 1848, t. L / if y I ■> y 

 Equus hemionos, i?of7f/. 6-^'^^ LM- /i./^^ 

 Asinus hemionus, Gray, Zool. Jmirn. i. p. 244 ; Cat. Ungulata B. M. 



p. 272 (not Knowsley Menat/.). 

 Equus onager, Ei'e>-s)»ann, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1840, p. 56. 

 ? jVsinus onager (Onager koulan, or "\^'ild Ass of Tartary), //. Smith, 



Equidec, p. 307, t. 18 ? 

 Asinus equioides, Hodf/san, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bene/, xi. p. 287 ; Blyth, 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 287. 

 Asinus kiang, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. t. 37. f. 2 (skidl). 

 Wild Ass, floorer oft, Travels. 

 Equus Idaiig, Moorcroft, Residence at Ladack, i. pp. 311, 443 ; Lesson, 



Manuel ; a ray, Proc. Zool. Sue. 1840, p. 29 ; Enoicsley Menag. p. 72 ; 



Ilodgson, Join-n. Asiat. Soc. Cole. 1842, p. 286. 

 Equus varius, part.. Ham. Smith, Equidec, p. 289. 

 Asinus polvodon, Ilodgsm, Calcutta Journ. N. U. 1847, p. 409, t. 6 



(animal and skidl). 

 .likta, Shaw, Zool. ii. p. 427. 

 Dshikketee, Penn. 

 Dgiggetai, Cuvicr, R. A. i. p. 244. 



