The Kiang, or Tibetan Wild Ass 



and other observers have described it as being as much 

 like neighing as braying. On the other hand, Moor- 

 crott, and subsequently General Strachey, described it 

 as more like braying than neighing ; the latter traveller 



Fig. 2. — The Kiang, from a specimen at Woburn Abbey, photographed by the 

 Duchess of Bedford. 



observing that " my impression of the voice of the 

 kiano; is that it is a shrieking bray, not like that of the 

 common ass, but still a real bray, and not a neigh." 

 Evidently it is perfectly distinct from the bray of 

 E. asinus^ while it also differs from the cry of one of 

 the races of E. onager. 



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