Mr. E. Blyth on the different Animals known as Wild Asses. 239 
would seem to be absolutely alike, with a heavy but well-formed 
head, longish ears, rather a short neck, and body and limbs of 
exquisite ¢ournure, indicative of extraordinary fleetness. I have 
not seen the living Kyang or Djiggetai; but the croup is di- 
stinetly higher than the withers in the living Ghor-khur or 
Koulan. The colour of the Kyang is much deeper and more 
rufous than that of the Ghor-khur, and there is considerably 
more of white about the latter. The Ghor-khur is of the isabel- 
line or sandy hue of most animals of the desert, but with a 
distinct rufescent tinge; its dorsal stripe would seem to be ge- 
nerally much broader than in the Kyang, though varying in 
breadth in different individuals; but it may be remarked that 
this stripe varies much in width in the domestic Donkey, at 
least in the diminutive Indian race of Asses, being in some in- 
dividuals of the latter quite as broad as in any Ghor-khur: this 
mesial stripe, however, seems to be broader down the tail in the 
Kyang, and is continued down to the black terminal tuft; 
whereas in the Ghor-khur (perhaps with exceptions) the line is 
narrow on the tail, and terminates at some distance above the 
tuft. Again, in the Ghor-khur the dorsal stripe (which in both 
is of a dark chocolate-colour rather than black) is more or less 
conspicuously bordered with white (as likewise in the Hemippus), 
and this white extends broadly and very conspicuously towards 
the tail and along the hind margin of the buttocks, where, in 
the Kyang (as also, I since find, in some Ghor-khurs), the hue 
of the upper parts is only moderately diluted. Again, there is 
a much stronger tendency in the Ghor-khur for the white of the 
under parts to extend upwards from the flanks, in some so much 
as to join that bordering the broad dorsal streak, thus insu- 
lating the isabelline hue of the haunch ; and the zebra-markings 
of the limbs, common (though not invariably present) in the 
Ghor-khur, have been denied to be ever traceable in the Kyang, 
and they certainly are not so in three skins of the latter under 
examination. In conformity with the general tendency to the 
extension of the white, as before remarked, that of the muzzle 
also reaches higher in the Ghor-khur than in either the Kyang 
or Hemippus; and lastly, the humeral cross, when apparent, 
shows itself differently, being faintly visible in full development 
and placed very forward in the Kyang, while in the Ghor-khur, 
when it does occur, it is a black cross more or less developed, 
though never probably to so great an extent as in the true. 
Moorcroft, alluding to the Quagga, remarks that the Kyang 
is “ without stripes ” (evidently meaning such as the Quagga ex- 
hibits), “‘ except a reported one along each side of the back to the 
tail. These were distinctly seen in a foal, but were not distin- 
