28 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. 



is white as well as the under side, just the same as the foals 

 from the west, only the outside of the legs is slightly tinted, 

 and the fetlocks are black. The mane and the spine are a deep 

 brownish colour and the beard also. They also have the cross 

 stripes, and stripes are to be seen in parallel lines at the 

 shoulders. The skin is smooth, except the light curled mane. 

 The eye has a darkish iris. 



" The third variety of the horses come from the territory of 

 the Zagan-norr Lake only, a small plateau on the southern branch 

 of the Altai mountains, about 100 miles in a south-east direc- 

 tion from Kobdo. The coat of these foals has a pale, full 

 yellowish-brown colour, only interrupted by the white belly 

 hair, and the distinct black bands at the outside of the legs 

 from the black hair of the fetlocks to above the hocks. The 

 nose is whitish. The mane and the curled hair of the tail 

 are black. The spine is an intense red-brown colour. They 

 have also cross stripes and shoulder stripes of a blackish colour. 

 The lower jaw beard is of a reddish colour. All these foals bear 

 a more or less curled coat, which is also to be seen on the legs. 

 The eye is blackish." 



At the close of 1901 several of the animals secured by 

 Mr Hagenbeck reached this country, and specimens are now in 

 the Zoological Gardens, and in the possession of the Duke of 

 Bedford, the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Professor J. C. Ewart\ 



Since then Mr Hagenbeck has imported a second batch 

 of young Prejvalsky horses, some of which with their Mon- 

 golian foster-mothers are here reproduced (Fig. 19) from a 

 photogi'aph kindly sent me by him. 



Thus the habitat of this animal, as at present known, is 

 a tolerably confined region, being a quadrangular area bounded 

 on the north by lat. 48^, on the south by lat. 46°, on the west by 

 long. 84°, and on the east by long. 90-1". 



Mr Hagenbeck informs me that wild horses of another 

 variety are said to exist 600 miles south of Kobdo, that is, 

 somewhere in the great Gobi desert. 



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1 Tegetmeier, Field, 11 Jan. 1902, p. 68 (with illustration of those in the 

 collection of the Duke of Bedford) ; 8 Mar. 1903, p. 362 (notice of specimens in 

 Eegent's Park, and in Mr Walter Kothschild's collection). 



