EQUUS. 199 



Equus hemionus, Pallas Nov. Comm, Acad. Petrop., xix, p. 394, pi. vii, 

 ('775); Radde Ost Siberien, i, p. 293; Severtzoff Ann. Mag. N. H., 

 (4), xviii, p. 387 ; Thomas Linn. Trans. (2), v, p. 61 ; Radde Zool. J. B., 

 p. 1057. 



Var. B. — indicus. 



Equus hemionus, F. Ctivier Hist. Nat. Mamm. (1823) ; Is. Geoffr. St. Hil. 



Ann. Mtis. Paris, iv, p. 77, pi. viii* ; Sykes P. Z. S., 1837, p, 91 ; Hiitton 



and Blyth J. A. S. B., xv, p. 145 ; Gray P. Z, S., 1849, P- 29 ; Blyth J. A. 



S. B., xxvi, p. 239; Blanford Persia, p. 84. 

 Asinus onager, Gray Cat, Mamm. B. M., iii, p. 269 (1852); Murray Zool. 



Sind p. 54. 

 Equus onager, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 229 ; id., Cat., p. 135 ; Jerdon 



Mamm., p. 236 ; Stoliczka J, A. S. B., xli, p. 228; Sterndale Mamm. 



Ind., p. 399. 

 Asinus indicus, P. L. Sclater P. Z. S., p. 163 (1862). 



Var, C. — kiatig. 



Equus kiang, Moorcroffs Travels, i, p. 312 (1841) ; Hodgson J. A. S. B., 



xi, p. 286 ; Gray P. Z. S., 1849, p. 29 ; Hay P. Z. S., 1859, p. 353, pi. 



Ixxiii ; Kinloch Large Game Shooting, i, p. 13. 

 Asinus polyodon, Hodgson Calc. Journ. N. H., vii, p. 469, pi. vi (1847) ; 



id. ibid, viii, p. 98. 

 Equus hemionus, Walker J. A. S. B., xvii, pt. ii, p. i, pi. i (1848) ; Gray 



Cat. Mamm. B. M., iii, p. 272; Cunninghaiti Ladak, p. 195, pi. vi ; 



Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 229 ; Strachey J. A. S. B., xxix, p. 136 ; 



Blyth Cat., p. 136 ; Sterndale Mamm. Ind., p. 401. 

 Asinus hemionus, Adams P. Z. S., 1858, p. 531 ; P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S., 



1862, p. 163. 



The Wild Ass ; Kiang of Thibet ; Ghorkhur, Hindustani ; 

 Ghour, Persia, 



Distribution. — The typical variety originally described by Pal- 

 las is found all over the Southern Siberian steppes and was got by 

 Radde from the Trans-baikal province, and also in the Trans-cas- 

 pian region. 



The Kiang is found plentifully in Western Thibet, extending 

 over the Cashmir frontier in the upper valley of the Indus. 



The Ghorkhur (var. indicus) is found in Cutch and Rajpootana, 

 west of Long. 75°, and extends through Afghanistan and Beluchis- 

 tan to Persia, and is finally replaced by a fourth sub-species from 

 which it is barely distinguishable, E. hemippus of Geoffroy. 



Var. B, — itidicus. 



a. Skull Kandahar H. B. Lumsden, 1859, A.S.B. 



6. Skull W. T. Blanford, 1882, 



c. Skull, ske-^ Zoological Gardens, 1877. 



leton, skin. 



d. Skull, ske«$ Zoological Gardens, 1877. 



leton. 



e. Skull, ska- $ Zoological Gardens, 1878. 



leton. 



