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numerous examples of this horse have been subsequently obtained. 

 The Museum at St. Petersburg, for instance, possesses several mounted 

 skins, and there is another in the Paris Museum of Natural History, 

 although at present, unfortunately, this interesting animal is unrepresented 

 in the collection of the British Museum. 



The following short note on the Paris specimen appeared in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London tor 1901: — 



"A recent letter from Mons. Oustalet had assured Mr. Sclater (in 

 answer to inquiries) that there were, without doubt, callosities (chest- 

 nuts) on the hind- as well as on the fore-legs of this animal, so that it 

 would have to be placed in the typical section of the genus Eqiius, and 

 was, in Mr. Sclater's opinion, in all probability a descendant of the original 

 stock whence the horse of domesticity [Eqiiits cabalhis) had been 

 derived." 



Another note on this animal, by Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, appeared in 

 The Field newspaper of 31st August 1901, illustrated by a reproduction 

 from the photograph from which the figure on page 284. was taken. 



The photograph on the next page is taken from one of six of these 

 animals recently brought to Russia. According to this photograph, 

 the tail is clothed with long hair up to its root, and is in this 

 respect intermediate between that appendage in the horse and the 

 kiang. In the horse the long hairy covering is much more dense and 

 bushy, while in the kiang the upper portion of the tail is short-haired. 

 In the African wild ass the long hair is confined to the tip ot the tail. 

 The upright mane and the absence of a forelock are well shown. The 

 ears are shorter than in the kiang, and therefore very much shorter than 

 in the African wild ass. The hoofs, especially the front pair, are of the 

 large size characteristic of the horse and kiang, and are thus very difi-erent 

 from those of the zebras and African wild ass. 



From the foregoing evidence, imperfect as it is, it would seem probable 



