400 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
between Asnee and the hills west of the Indus, above Mithunkote, says : 
‘They are to be found wandering pretty well throughout the year ; but 
in the early summer, when the grass and the water in the pools have 
dried up from the hot winds (which are here terrific), the greater 
number, if not all, of the ghor-khurs migrate to the hills for grass and 
water. The foaling season is in June, July, and August, when the 
Lquus onager. 
Beluchis ride down and catch numbers of foals, finding a ready sale in 
the cantonments for them, as they are taken down on speculation to 
Hindustan. They also shoot great numbers of full-grown ones for food, 
the ground in places in the desert being very favourable for stalking.’ 
In Bikaneer too, according to information given by Major Tytler to 
Mr. Blyth: ‘Once only in the year, when the foals are young, a party 
-of five or six native hunters, mounted on hardy Sindh mares, chase down 
