236 Mr. E. Blyth on the different Animals known as Wild Asses. 
well infer that they perceive, in the markings described, indica- 
tions of certain of those races*, 
Tn some examples of the Ghor-khur (as that figured by Dr. 
Walker, from a drawing from life by Dr. Cantort), there are no 
traces whatever of markings on the limbs; others show slight 
traces, more or less distinct, chiefly at the joints; and others, 
again, have the entire limbs strongly marked: but the stripes 
do not resemble those often seen in domestic donkeys, or in the 
races of Horse referred to; in general they are wavy lines of 
fawn, often more or less crossed or reticulate, but in some more 
regular and Zebra-like, upon observing which I remembered the 
description in Bell’s ‘Travels in Tartary ’ (i. p. 224) of the “ wild 
Asses” found in the country of the Tzulimm Tartars, “the hair 
of which is waved, white and brown, like that of a tiger:” he 
“had seen many of their skins.” So far as the limbs are con- 
cerned, this description is quite intelligible with reference to 
many Indian examples of the Ghor-khur. 
It would appear that these limb-markings are never seen in 
the Kyang; but a narrow black ring adjoiming the hoof would 
seem to be constant in this animal, as was first pointed out to 
me by Major Robert C. Tytler, the proprietor of the three 
Ghor-khurs now in Calcutta. This mark is also more or less 
developed in the Ghor-khur, but is by no means conspicuous 
in either race. In two stuffed specimens of the Kyang, old and 
young, in the Society’s museum, there is no black shoulder- 
stripe, but in place of it the coat is there distinctly of a deeper 
shade of hue, so that the stripe is faintly indicated, as is best 
seen from a moderate distance. The same is observable, when 
especially looked for, in an unmounted skin. In one only of 
Major Tytler’s three Ghor-khurs there is a small narrow black 
* Tt does not follow, because the hybrid offspring of the Horse and Ass 
is mostly infertile (the male mule perhaps always), that distinct species of 
the Equine or Caballine group, or of the Asinine group, respectively, should 
not produce a prolific intermediate race, hybrid with hybrid. In the Lon- 
don Zoological Gardens there was formerly a triple hybrid, the sire of 
which was a Quagga, and the dam a cross between the Ass and Zebra. 
The curious animal figured by Col. C. H. Smith, in his volume on the 
Solidungula in the ‘ Naturalist’s Library,’ under the name Asinus hippagrus 
(vel equuleus), appears to me to be a Chinese hinny, or offspring of the 
Horse and she-Ass. Its stripes might have been derived from either 
parent, if not (and. very probably) from both of them. Col. Smith also 
figures what he terms an “eel-back dun” from the Ukraine, with the 
humeral cross-stripe, but no limb-markings; in the text, however, he 
repeatedly alludes to those markings as occurring sometimes in the “ eel- 
‘yack dun” race. 
+ Journ. Asiat. Soc. xvii. pt. 2. p. 1, pl. 1. This published figure is 
bad, whatever the drawing may have been. There is no anatomy about it, 
and the grace and beautiful contour of the creature are not at all pourtrayed. 
The head in particular, and the haunch, are exceedingly ill-represented. 
