268 MAMMALIA. 
2. Asinus. The ZEBRAS. 
Have the upper part of the tail covered with short hair, and 
the lower part covered with longer hair forming a tuft; the fur 
marked with darker stripes; the fore-legs only furnished with 
hard horny warts in a similar situation to those in the front 
legs of the Horse, but there are none im the lower part of the 
hinder legs. 
Asinus, Gray, Zool. Journ. i. 261; Lesson, N. Tab. R. A. 166, 
1842. 
Chevaux (Asinus), F. Cuvier, Dent. Mam. 224. t. 92. 
Equus, sp., Linn. 
Asinine Group, H. Smith, Equide, 298. 
* Colour nearly uniform with a dark longitudinal dorsal 
stripe ; some have a black stripe across the shoulders. The 
Asses of Asia. 
Asses of Asia, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 74. 
+ Ears elongated, acute. The Tame or Domestic Asses. 
These animals vary greatly in size and appearance according 
to the climate. They are large and smooth-haired in the warmer 
climates; small and shaggy in the colder countries. 
It is very doubtful if the Domestic Ass is found in a truly 
wild state ; the asses which have been described as wild, appear 
rather to be domestic animals which have escaped, or mules be- 
tween the Domestic Ass and the allied wild species; for when 
caught they, after a short time, submit themselves to man, which 
is not the case with what I have here considered as the wild 
kinds. 
Pallas justly observes, “‘ In extensis Asiz desertis primam pa- 
triam esse querendam Equi feri et Onagri a Nomadibus in 
domesticos usus domatorum, zque ac Hemioni hactenus indo- 
miti.”—Zool. Ross. A.i. 255. This is equally applicable to the 
African species. 
1. ASINUS VULGARIS. The Domestic Ass. 
Grey, with a longitudinal dorsal streak and a dark streak across 
the shoulders; ears elongate; facial line arched. Skull with 
suborbital foramen as in E. Hemionus. 
Equus asinus, Linn.; Renger, Nat. Parag. 341; Pallas, Zool. 
Ri: Ab 1s 263, 
Asinus vulgaris, Gray, Zool. Journ. i. 244; J. Brookes, Mus. 
Cat. 19; Gray, Knowsley Menag. 71. 
