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enamel ; and, in yoxing individuals, there is often a small anterior molar 

 wliich is deciduous. The incisors have their crowns furrowed by a groove. 

 The canines are only present in males. The tail is moderately long, with 

 long hair, the eai's rather large and pointed, and there is a mane. The 

 female has two inguinal mammte. 



The skull is elongated, and the lower jaw is of great size and strength. 

 The humerus and femur are short, the fore-arm and shank are long and 

 partially anchylosed, and there is only one metacarpal and metatarsal 

 bone, the othei-s, however, being represented by small bones called the 

 splint bones. Three phalanges complete the foot, the last of which 

 bears the hoof. The stomach is simple, the intestinal canal long and 

 capacious, and the cfecum enormous. 



The animals of this family are peculiar to the old world. They com- 

 prise horses, asses, and zebras, which are usually placed in one genus. 



Gen. Equus, Linnseus. 



Char. — Those of the family, of which it is the only genus. 



It subdivides into Horses properly so called, Equus ; Asses, Asinus, 

 Gray; and Zebras, llvppotigris, Hamilton Smith. Wild horses of a 

 truly feral type are at present unknown, but they have become almost 

 wild in the Pampas of South America. 



Gen. Asimis, Gray. Asses. 



Asses are distinguished from horses by their longer head and ears, 

 by the tail being covered with short hairs at the base, and furnished with 

 a tuft of long hairs towards the tip and on the sides only, not throughout, 

 as in horses. They also want the peculiar hard horny excrescences found 

 on the legs of horses, and have almost invariably a dark longitudinal 

 dorsal stripe. Several species of wild ass are now known to exist, one 

 of which is a native of the western parts of India. 



214. Equus onager. 



Pallas.— Blytii, Cat. p. 135.— Figd. F. Cuvier, Mammif. II., pi. 92. 

 — -U. hemionus of India, Auct. — Asiniis indicus, Sclatek. — Ghor-l-hur, 

 H. — Ghour, of Persians. — Ko%dan, of the Kirgliiz. 



The Wild Ass of Cutch. 

 Descr. — Of a pale isabclla or sandy colour above, with a slight but 



