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Calcutta, and was then to be seen in a livery stable 

 near Park Lane. We give, with the sketch, the 

 notes made at the time. 



" The animal was a male, by examining the teeth, 

 not quite four years old, and was somewhat under 

 three feet in height at the withers ; the head eleven 

 inches and a half from the fore-top to the under 

 part of the nostrils, with a straight profile, very small 

 mouth, delicate nostrils, and deer-like aspect resem- 

 bled that of a noble Arab ; excepting that the eyes 

 displayed less fire and more cunning, and the nos- 

 trils opened a little lower ; the ears were only four 

 inches long, with the tips suddenly contracted and 

 then again slightly dilated ; their insides white, the 

 upper third black; the neck was CAve-like, with a 

 coarse abundant mane, longer than in the ass, but 

 still standing upright. Compared with its general 

 size, the barrel was full, very closely ribbed up in 

 the flank, but the withers, shoulder, croup, hams, 

 and legs were asinine, with short rather vertical 

 pasterns and round, more than oval soles of the 

 hoofs ; the tail, not reaching the hocks by six inches, 

 was scantily supplied with long hair nearly to its 

 root, resembling that of a rat-tailed horse; there 

 were warts on the inner arms, but none on the 

 hind-legs ; all the limbs clean, yet very strong. It 

 was entirely of a yellowish red clay colour, except- 

 ing black tips of the ears, the mane, and long 

 hair on the tail, a well defined line along the back 

 extending dovni the middle of the tail, crossed by 

 a broad bar of the same colour over the shoulders, 



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