and it is remarkable how those 

 prehistoric artists portrayed 

 the rather dull eyes in con- 

 trast with the fierce expres- 

 sion they gave the eyes of 

 the bison. 



The general dun or light- 

 brownish color of the Prze- 

 walsky horses conforms to 

 their semi-desert environ- 

 ment, rendering them less 

 conspicuous, like the now 



FIG. 2. THE KIANG, OR WILD ASS 

 OF THIBET 



extinct quagga of the Zebra From photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. 



c ! i , f i made in Woburn Park 



family, which formerly 



roamed the open plains south 

 of the Limpopo River in the 

 Transvaal, South Africa. 



But the closest imitation of 

 the wild horse is in the wild 

 ass (Fig. 2) from the Trans- 

 Baikal of Asia, known as the 

 Kiang, a specimen of which 

 was presented to the Society 

 by His Grace the Duke of 

 Bedford. The light under- 

 color of the belly of the wild 

 horse is also seen in the wild 

 ass of Southern Asia (Fig. 3) 

 which has a much lighter 

 color scheme than that of the 

 Its limbs are 

 of being 



FIG. 3. THE PERSIAN WILD ASS 

 Equus hemippux 



Uniform Isabella, or fawn color, with dark 

 dorsal stripe, light colored and slender limbs, 

 light under color and dark erect mane. This Przewalsky. 

 animal differs from the Abyssinian ass, the 

 progenitor of the domesticated asses, in the 

 absence of the shoulder stripes. dark. It shows, too, the dark, 



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