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parts being of a dull ruddy brown or chesnut rufous hue, approach- 

 ing to bay, especially on the head, and distinctly darker on the 

 flanks, where it abruptly contrasts with the white of the belly. 

 Cunningham calls it the wild horse and says that it neighs, and 

 does not bray ; and others assert the same, or that the voice of 

 the kyang is " as much like neighing as braying." On the other 

 hand, Moorcroft, Colonel Strachey, and many sportsmen say that 

 his cry is more like braying than neighing. The evidence of 

 Colonel Strachey, an accomplished and scientific traveller, is valu- 

 able on this point. He says, " my impression as to the voice of the 

 kyang is that it is a shrieking bray, not like that of the common 

 ass, but still a real bray and not a neigh." Again, " the kyang so 

 far as external aspect is concerned is obviously an ass and not a 

 horse." How any one can call it a wild horse after looking at its tail, 

 I cannot understand, (though Colonel Chesney even calls the 

 hemippus the wild horse) ; but I can imagine that its darker color, 

 shorter ears, and large size compared with the ordinary domestic 

 ass, may give this animal, at a distance, something of the aspect of 

 a horse." 



Who shall decide this question where the authorities on either 

 side are so good ? Is the shrieking call of a mule, a neigh, or a 

 bray ? 



No. 54, Page 71. Sus Indicus. 

 The Indian Wild Boar. 



Jerdon gives the following description of this well known 

 animal, and the grand sport of spearing it the palm over all other 

 Indian sports tiger-shooting not excepted. 



" Head longer and more pointed than in the European boar ; 

 the plane of the forehead straight, and not concave ; ears small 

 and pointed ; tail more tufted ; the malar beard well marked. 



Length of a tolerably five boar, 5 feet to root of tail which is 

 1 foot, stands a little over 30 inches high at the shoulder. 



The color of the adult, says Mr. Blyth, is brownish-black, 

 scantily covered with black hairs, Besides the black recumbent 

 mane of the occiput and back, and the whiskers and the bristles 

 above and below the eyes, there is a bundle of long black bristles 



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