270 MAMMALIA. 
Onager, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 44; Rati Quad. 6; Act. Acad. 
Soc. Imp. Petrop. 1777, 258. t. 11; Neue Nord Beyir. ii. 22. 
‘2. ay, BU: 
E. Asinus onager, Schreb. Saugth. t. 312. 
Equus onager, Brisson, Reg. Anim.; Pallas. 
Wild Ass, Bell, Travels, i. 212; Heber’s Travels. 
Koulan or Wild Ass, Penn. Quad. 
Equus Hemionus (Wild Ass of Kutch and the Indus), Sykes, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 91, not Pallas; I. Geoff. Nouv. Ann. 
Mus. N. H. iv. 97. t. 2, 3 years old. 
Asmus Hemionus, Gray, Osteol. Spec. B. M.; H. Smith, Equide, 
t.20; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 29 ; Knowsley Menag. 
Equus Khur (Ane Khur), Lesson, Manual Mamm. 347, 1827. 
Wild Ass or Gour, Ker Porter, Travels Georgia, Persia, i. 460. 
Wild Ass or Khur of the Persians, Isis, 1823, 764. 
Onager, Xenophon; Barboza, Collect. Ramusio. i. 300, b. (Mala- 
bar and Golconda). 
Hemione or Dziggtai, Lesson, Comp. Buffon, x. 379, from Geof- 
froy; F. Cuvier, Mamm. 1823; not Pallas. 
The Hymar or Hamar of Mesopotamia, H. Smith, Equide, 313. 
Asinus Hamar (the Hamar), H. Smith, Equide, t. 19. 
Chamor of the Hebrews. 
Hab. The Plains of Mesopotamia, Persia, Kutch; shores of the 
Indus, Punjab. 
a. Young (eight months old, died in September). Mesopotamia. 
Presented by J. H. Layard, Esq., M.P. 
6. Adult. India, Kutch. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 
OsTEOLOGY. 
Skull and bones of body. India, Kutch. Presented by the Earl 
of Derby. 
They are abundant in Mesopotamia, and are evidently the Wild 
Ass of Xenophon. The adults are very difficult to approach within 
rifle range. The young are sometimes caught alive.—Layard. 
The Khur inhabits the deserts of Persia im troops, frequenting 
the hills in summer and the plains in winter. 
Pallas, in a paper entitled ‘ Observations sur ’Asne dans son. 
état sauvage, ou sur le véritable Onagre des 4neiens” (Act. Acad. 
Sci. Imp. Petrop. 1777, 258. t. 11), figured a Wild Ass which 
was sent by sea from Derbent to Astracan. The figure greatly 
resembles the mule between the Hemione and the Ass now in 
the Zoological Gardens, but the ears appear a trifle longer. It 
is coloured in the same manner as the Hemione, that is to say, 
the more prominent parts of the body are dark, and the middle 
