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muzzle, a short thin neck, joining the head at a 

 considerable angle ; the mane is short and ragged, 

 the tail not very abundant, the shoulder low and 

 rather vertical, the limbs long, and the hoofs wide ; 

 all the proportions hidden and deformed by a heavy 

 bear-like fur, particularly under the jaws, where 

 there is a considerable beard, not long, but extend- 

 ing to the gullet : the colour is grisly white, some- 

 what darker in summer, and the hair on the outside 

 shining and hard, within soft and downy. The 

 Kiang, which Mr. Moorcroft saw in great numbiers 

 in the elevated deserts of Khoten, and described as 

 different from the Ghoor Khur of Sinde, is in form 

 more like an antelope, having a brilliant eye and 

 great vivacity of movement, which the name Kiang 

 (rushing) sufficiently explains. This animal stands 

 about fourteen hands high, with a round muscular 

 form, is probably again the wild stock of the Tan- 

 gum ; but the Yo-to-tze, which we regard to be our 

 Asinus equuleus^ intermediate between the horse and 

 hemionus, like the former in shape and the latter 

 in colour, is allied but not identical with the onager. 



These short notices show how defective our habits 

 of superficial examination are, since no less than 

 three species may be concealed under the name of 

 Ghoor Khur, and as many in the more general term 

 of wild horses. 



Turning to Africa and excluding from the pre- 

 sent consideration the zebra group, we find the an- 

 cients were still more liable to confound the real 

 Equine animals, and depending upon reports of the 



