16 THE PEJEVALSKY H0E8E. 



the fetlock, the outer side of the limb is covered with black hairs ; 

 but, on the inner side, the hair is grey with transverse bands, 

 which are present as far up as the knee. Poliakof, referring to 

 the presence of these transverse stripes, states that they are in- 

 distinct. This is so in the specimen which served for his descrip- 

 tion, since it was in the winter coat. In adult animals with a 

 summer coat, on the other hand, they are generally very pro- 

 nounced, although they may vary considerably in number and 

 arrangement. In certain horses (for instance. No. 3,071), I have 

 counted as many as five transverse bands ; but in foals, in which 

 the legs are not so intensely coloured, they are occasionally absent. 

 Further, in other animals (No. 3,090, for example), they are light 

 in colour and few in number. Transverse stripes are especially 

 well marked in the specimen (No. 3,074) obtained by the 

 brothers C-rum-Grjimailo. They do not constitute complete half- 

 rings, but are in the form of two stripes interrupted on the inner 

 side of the limb. 



As far as the fetlock, the lower part of the inside of the limb 

 is of a reddish colour, this gradually merging into the black of 

 the outer side. Above the fetlock the reddish tone is lighter, and, 

 becoming gradually paler, is finally as white as the hair of the 

 belly. 



The living specimens at Tsarskoe-vSelo and Askaniya Nova show 

 many interesting peculiarities, the recital of which I consider to 

 be here necessary. All the following particulars relating to the 

 Tsarskoe-8elo horses have been obtained by personal observation ; 

 but, as I was not able to see the horses myself, the information 

 regarding the Falz-Fein animals has been supplied by Koshevni- 

 koff, to whom I am greatly indebted. 



The three-year-old stallion and the two-year-old mare at 

 Tsarkoe-Selo possessed fairly well-marked differences. The 

 general colour of the mare was greyer than that of the stallion, 

 in which there was a reddish shade. The white patches on the 

 abdomen of the stallion were smaller and fewer in number than 

 in the mare, and confined to the flanks ; while on the mare similar 

 patches were also present on the thighs and shoulders. The colour 

 of the neck was the same in both the stallion and the mare. Pale 

 spots were absent from the neck ; this being a peculiarity which 

 distinguishes E. prjevahlcH from the Asiatic wild ass, the under 

 part of whose neck is whitish. The " whiskers " could be easily 

 distinguislied in the stallion, whose winter coat at the time of 

 examination (October 18th) had begun to grow. On the nose 

 of the mare there was a grey patch, consisting of black and white 

 hairs, not sharply defined but gradually merging into the brown 



