THE 
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. 
NOVEMBER 1708. 
iu Defeription of ihe Equus Hemionus or Dthiggetai of the 
Eaflern Deferts of Middle Afia*. By Profeffor PALLAS. 
Fyrom Neue Nordifche Beytrage, Vol. I. 
Narurauists hitherto have diftinguifhed only three 
fpecies of the genus horfe, or animals which: have not 
cloven hoofs, viz. the horfe and the afs, which are both 
~ found wild in the defert regions of Afia, and the beautiful 
ftriped zebra +, which, with fo many other fingular animals, 
is peculiar to Africa. {[ have had an opportunity, however, 
of becoming acquainted with a fourth fpecies (Plate V. fig. 2.) 
the Mogul name of which has been long known in Europe. 
But refpecting this animal zoologifts as yet have been under 
great doubts; becaufe the accounts given of it were either 
defeétive or little to be depended on, as might readily be ex- 
% See Profeffor Pallas’s Trave!s, in the original, p. 217; and Nova 
Comment. Fetropal. tom. xix. ps 394. tab. 7. Equus Hemionus. 
+ It has bee proved by Dr. Sparmann that thofe animals, before cons 
fidercd by naturalif's as the males of the zebra, are a particular ffecies, 
which rove about in herds; and, coafequently, form the fifth kind of 
JSolidunguia. They are called, at the Cape, by the Hotrentct name of 
quagga. 
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