or Dfbiggetai of Middle Afra. 235 
of May, had at ‘that period loft almoft all its winter hair, 
though the Tungufian horfes ftill retained theirs. The 
fummer hair of this female was uncommonly fmooth and 
pretty; and I never found it much longer on the fkins of 
animals fhot far later im the feafon. The colour eafily be- 
comes paler; and on the fiuffed hide of the female, which I 
have defcribed, and which is preferved in the cabinet of na- 
tural hiftory at Peterfburgh, the fummer hair, partly by the 
preparation the hide has gone through, and partly by the 
effets of the fun, has been totally bleached to a dull ifa- 
bella colour, which appears lighter than the common wins 
ter hair, 
The above female was about three years old, and was 
thot on the 26th of May O.S. 1772, in the neighbourhood 
of Tareinoor, in the country of the Tungufians. As the 
{pring heats had then commenced with great violence in ~ 
thofe diftriéts, the animal, at Kuluflutai, where it was kept 
for me, had already begun to putrefy on the 28th, and ex- 
pofed me to a very difagreeable piece of labour, efpecially in 
a barren region, where I was obliged to diffeét it without 
any affiftance, The figure (Plate V.) done from a drawing 
made before the diffection, is fo accurate, that I was never 
better fatisfied with any reprefentation of an animal. The 
dfhiggetai cannot, therefore, be any longer confidered among 
the doubtful animals, and its defcription is as follows : 
In fize and figure it has a great refemblance to a middle- 
fized mule ; but it excels the mule in the beauty and deli- 
cacy of its make. The head is larger than that of a horfe, 
and more compreffed at the fides ; the forehead is perfectly 
flat, and runs downwards with a {mall angle towards the 
muzzle. The fides of the head are alfo flat, efpecially where 
the broad part of the jaw-bones lie, and where the head has 
the greateft thicknefs. On the other hand, the throat, be- 
tween the broad parts of the jaw-bones, is hollow. 
The lips, particularly the upper one, are thick and flabby ; 
thinly covered with hair, and black on the edges, which are 
befet 
