HUNTING 



CHAPTER LVL 



HUNTING THE WILD HOUSE AND THE WILD ASS. 



E wild ass, the Onager of Oppian, Pliny, Ray, &c 

 and the Koulan of Mr. Pennent, varies from thj 

 tame in several respects. The forehead is much 

 arched : the ears are long and erect, even when the 

 animal is out of order ; sharp pointed and lined 

 with whitish curling hairs ; the irides are of a livid brown ; the 

 lips thick ; and the end of the nose sloping steeply down to the 

 upper lip : and the nostrils are Jorge nd oval. It is much higher 

 on its limbs than the tame ass, and its legs are much finer, hut it 

 again resembles it in the narrowness of its chest and body : it 

 carries its head much higher ; and its skull is of a surprising thin- 

 ness. The mane is dusky, about three or four inches long, com- 

 posed of soft woolly hair, and extends quite to the shoulders : the 

 hairs at the end of the tail are coarse, and about a span long. The 

 color of the hair in general is silvery white ; the upper part of 



