304 THE YO-TO-TZE. 



its bridle. " It is extremely strong and bony, of 

 beautiful form, has a fine eye and good counte- 

 nance, and though not striped like a zebra, is beau- 

 tifully clouded with different tints of ash and 

 mouse-colour."* Is this a mistake as regards* the 

 native country ? For the description appears to 

 apply to a real Kiang of Central Asia, and there is 

 no indigenous unstriped Equine animal in South 

 Africa ; or if it refers to the Onager or Ahmar of 

 the northern part, how did it escape so enlightened 

 an observer that it was of the same species with the 

 wild ass of Cutch, the Ghoor-Khurs of Persia, and 

 Djiggetai of the Mongolese? 



THE YO-TO-TZE? 



Asinus equuleus, Nobis. 

 PLATE XVII. 



WE have hesitated long whether the present animal 

 should not be placed with horses, for the external 

 appearance is so intermediate, and even the voice, 

 as we were informed, so much a compound of neigh- 

 ing and braying, that it may be most proper to con- 

 sider its location with this group as only provisional. 

 The specimen here figured was drawn by ourselves 

 at the request of the late Sir Joseph Banks, who 

 obtained from Earl Rivers information that there 

 was an un described species of diminutive horse 

 brought from the Chinese frontiers north-east of 

 * Vol. i. p 39. 



