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of the day; but the fmall pennons at the maft-heads of the 
fifhing-boats in the harbour were in the morning at all 
points of the compals. 
I was a few days afterwards at Winchelfea, and at feve- 
~ gal places along the coaft; where I was informed the above 
phenomenon had been equally vifible. 
Il. Defeription of the Equus Hemionus or Dfhiggetai of the 
Eaflern Deferts of Middle Afia. By Profeffor PAULAS. 
From-Neue Nordifche Beytrage, Vol. I. r 
[Concluded from paze 121.] 
Tue covering feafon of the dfhiggetai falls towards the 
riddle or end of Auguft; and about this period Mefler- 
fchmidt obferved in a female, which he diffected, a foetus 
-not larger than a moufe. They caft their young in the 
fpring, and generally have one foal at a time. When the 
young attain to the age of three, they are equal in fize 
to the old ones, and are fit for procreation, as I was af- 
fured by the inhabitants of thofe countries, who often had ° 
an opportunity of killing and examining thefe animals. 
The males when they fight bite each other, like the com- 
mon wild horfes. The dthiggetai fights alfo with its heels, 
as was obferved in a foal which had been caught, and 
which, a few years before my arrival in Dauuria, was kept 
there by one of the Coffacks; but it continued alive only a 
fhort time. The hair of the dfhiggetai in winter is almoft 
of a pale ifabella yellow colour, about an inch and a half 
Jong; a little rough on the back, as was the cafe in the foal 
of a wild horfe, which I have already defcribed *, and equally 
foftand tender. Skins covered with winter hair of this kind 
T have found among the Tungufians. The female, how- 
ever, which I procured in Dauuria, at the end of the month 
* See Pallas Rrijz, vol. iii. p. 509, Plate VEU. 
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