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in number fewer than in the common horse : the 

 ears are larger than in that species, erect, and lined 

 with a thick, whitish, curling hair : the neck is 

 slender and compressed ; the mane upright, short, 

 soft, and of a gre} r ish colour. In place of the 

 foretop there is a short tuft of downy hair, about 

 two inches in length. The body is rather long, 

 and the back but little elevated ; the breast sharp 

 and protuberant ; the limbs long and elegant; the 

 thighs thin, as in a mule ; within the fore legs is 

 an oyal callus, but none in the hind legs : the 

 hoofs are oblong, smooth, and black : the tail 

 like that of a Cow, being slender, and naked for 

 half its length ; the remainder covered with long 

 ash-coloured hair. The winter coat of this ani- 

 mal is of a brownish ash-colour, with the tips of 

 the hair grey ; it is about two inches long, and 

 soft, like that of a Camel ; slightly waved or 

 undulated on the back. In summer it becomes 

 much smoother, and in all parts elegantly marked 

 by small featherings or turnings : the tip of the 

 nose is white ; and the remainder of the face of a 

 light tawny cast, which is also diffused over all 

 the upper parts : the hind thighs, insides of the 

 limbs and belly, are white ; and from the mane to 

 the tail extends a chesnut or blackish-brown line, 

 which is broadest on the loins, and gradually les- 

 sens as it approaches the tail : there is also a very 

 slight appearance of a transverse band or cross 

 over the shoulders. The length of this species, 

 from nose to tail, is about six feet and a half; that 

 of the trunk of the tail sixteen inches, and of the 



