18 THE PKJEVALSKY HOKSE. 



about |- ai'scliin (7 inches) high, black down the centre and yellow 

 at the sides. A striping, such as Tichonov described as being 

 present in a skin in the Moscow Zoological Museum, is not 

 apparent. 



" No. 2. Lighter in colour than No. 1, and smaller (corresponds 

 in height with No. 3). Dorsal stripe narrower. Legs are the 

 same as those of No. 1, but darker low down. Three stripes on 

 each leg. Traces of a fourth stripe on the right fore limb. 



" Muzzle white, and whitish-brown farther back. The nose is 

 less convex than in our skin. The mane is dark fox-red (brownish) 

 in the middle, and lighter at the sides ; but the difference in 

 colour is not so well marked as in No. 1. The ears are of a fox- 

 red colour, with black points. The shoulders are light. The lower 

 part of the belly is yellowish. The callosities on the posterior 

 limbs are large, long and placed near the posterior border of 

 the limb. 



" No. 3 is the lightest coloured specimen. Tlie dorsal stripe 

 is very narrow. Jiy their colour, the light parts of the body 

 remind one very much of the light parts of the onager. The front 

 of the muzzle is similar in colour to tliat of the onager. The neck 

 is light brown, and the belly is quite white. The under side of 

 the abdomen, especially close to the legs, is white. The shouldei's 

 and buttocks are veiy light in colour. 



" The miizzle is white ; the forehead is light brown ; and the 

 ears arc very light in colour. The nostrils are dark, as in the 

 rest of the animals. The left fore limb has four stripes ; two of 

 the other limbs have three stripes ; and one has only two stripes. 

 The lower part of the limb is very dark coloured. 



" Half-bred ( 1) horses. According to the statements of the 

 inhabitants of the districts from which the wild horses were 

 brought, two ordinary mares were covered by wild stallions in the 

 Steppe, and the supposed half-breds are the product of this union. 

 Their colour is brown with a dark grey tinge. One animal is 

 light coloured ; the other is dark. Dorsal stripes are present. 

 The muzzle is white, and, in one of the animals, the region of the 

 no3e is pure white. There are no stripes on the legs. The mane 

 loag and the forelock short, as if it had been sheared off. No 

 double colouring is seen in the mane. The tail is like that of 

 an ordinary horse." 



According to the foregoing description of the external characters 

 of E. ijrjevalshii, Poliakofs diagnostic signs * should be altered 

 as follows : Mane short, no forelock, dorsal stripe and transverse 

 shoulder-stripe present, and the proximal part of the tail bristly. 



* Op. cit. p. 2. 



