536 Defeription of the Equus Hemionus 
befet with {tiff grey briftles, crooked and bent downwards. 
The corners of the mouth are covered with foft hair on 
the infide; and the inner fide of the cheeks is covered 
with fine blackifh glands. The number of the teeth amounts 
to thirty-four; fo that this animal has two -lefs than the 
horfe. The fore-teeth are fix ; the four middlemoft of which, 
in the above-mentioned female, had not yet been changed ; 
they were of a conical form marked with a fmall furrow ; 
and the fide ones were obliquely blunted, and preffed towards 
thofe in the middle. The fituation of the fore-teeth is the 
fame as thofe of the horfe, ftanding perpendicular in the 
upper, and obliquely in the under’jaw. I found the eye- 
teeth neither in this female, nor in the fkull of a ftallion, 
which had been fhot a little before, and brought to me by 
the Tungufians; but I obferved in the upper jaw of the 
former, at a mean diftance between the fore and jaw teeth, 
a trace as of a focket for a tooth. The jaw-teeth were like 
thofe of the horfe ; but on each fide above, as well as below, 
there were only three fully grown, beyond which the fourth 
was juft beginning to appear. I founda fifth in the before- 
mentioned fkull concealed within the focket. Of the latter, 
Mefferfchmidt, {peaking of the fkull of a fiallion, makes no 
mention. In the palate I counted feventeen broad wrinkles, 
of which, thofe before were flatter, and thofe behind higher 
and broader. 
The nottrils, as in the horfe, are wide, blackifh on the 
infide and edges; but under the noftril, on each fide of the 
cartilage, there is an excrefcence like a large round wart, 
which is to be found neither in the horfe nor the afs. The 
muzzle is interfperfed with long blackith briftles, the longeft 
of which, about two inches in length, are found on the 
under lip, and on the outfide of the nofirils. 
The eyes are of a moderate fize, and, with their Jongeft 
diameter, fland in the head obliquely. The edges of the 
eyelids and a triangular fpot at the corner of the eye are 
bald and blackith ; and the upper eyelid only is furnifhed 
with 
