QUAGGA,—A'sinus Quagga 
Each troop is under the command of a leader, who sways his subjects with unlimited 
authority, and takes upon himself to make all needful arrangements for their welfare. 
The honour of success is not the only motive which urges the hunters to pursue the 
Dziggetai, for its flesh is remarkably excellent, and is universally thought to be one of the 
greatest dainties. The localities inhabited by this animal are Mesopotamia, Persia, the 
shores of the Indus, and the Punjab. The colour of this animal is pale reddish-brown in 
the summer, fading into a grey-brown in the winter, and marked with a black stripe 
along the spine, becoming wider upon the middle of the back. 
ANOTHER species of Wild Ass is the Kiana, or Wild Ass of Thibet, sometimes, but 
erroneously, called the Wild Horse of Thibet, because its noise resembles the neighing 
of that animal rather than the braying of the ass. 
The Kiang inhabits the high table-lands of its native country, and is wonderfully 
fleet and active in traversing level or uneven ground. It is a vather large animal; a 
full-sized adult from Chinese Tartary measuring fourteen hands in height at the shoulder. 
It lives in little troops of eight or ten in number, and is found in districts where the cold 
is most intense, the thermometer falling below zero in the localities which are most 
frequented by them. As they pass their lives in such a climate, they are necessarily 
furnished with warm, woolly coats, which are of different colour and thickness according 
to the time of year. In the summer the fur is short, smooth, and of a light reddish- 
brown, but in winter the hair becomes long and rather woolly, and fades into a light grey 
brown. The legs too change the tinting, being straw-coloured in summer and whitish in 
winter. A broad black line is drawn along the back, but there is no transverse band 
