86 THE HORSE AND ITS RELATIVES 



it to be identical with the breed or species known 

 to the Chinese as " yo-to-tze." 



The animal, which was a male, was described 

 as being not quite five years old, and standing 

 4 ft. (i2 hands) at the withers. In form it was 

 distinctly "ewe-necked"; the mane, although 

 longer than that of an ass, was upright ; the tail 

 (which, from the picture, appears to have been cut) 

 was scantily supplied with long hairs nearly to 

 its root, resembling that of a rat-tailed horse ; and 

 callosities were wanting on the hind-limbs. 



As regards colour, Colonel Smith writes that it 

 was entirely of a yellowish red clay tint, "except- 

 ing the black tips of the ears, the mane, and long 

 hair on the tail, a well-defined line along the back 

 extending down the middle of the tail, crossed by a 

 broad bar of the same colour over the shoulders, 

 three or four streaks very distinctly marked over the 

 knees and hocks, the cannon-joints brown, and the 

 fetlocks and pasterns down to the hoofs black, the 

 hoofs and hide dark, the eyes brown." 



With the exception of certain remarks on an 

 Arab-like appearance of the muzzle and nose, this 

 description would apply fairly well to some of the 

 impure tarpans characterised by having fawn- 

 coloured instead of white muzzles. It is true that 

 the absence of chestnuts on the hind-limbs appears 

 to be a difference, but these are always small in the 

 Mongolian tarpan, and were sometimes absent in 



