240 Mr. E. Blyth on the different Animals known as Wild Asses. 
guished in adults*.” In the Asiatic Society’s stuffed speci- 
mens, especially when viewed from some distance, the dull 
ruddy-brown or rufous-chestnut hue (approaching to bay, espe- 
cially on the head) of the upper parts becomes gradually but 
distinctly darker on the flanks, to where it abruptly contrasts 
with the white of the belly ; and in an adult the jowl and sides 
of the neck are white, reaching nearly up to the mane at the 
setting-on of the head, whence the brown above gradually widens 
backward to the shoulder; the white of the under parts also 
ascends above the elbow-joint, and posterior to the very dull 
indication of the shoulder-cross, which is not darker than where 
the body-hue contrasts with the white of the flanks. The stuffed 
foal is generally a trifle darker, and a little different in the rela- 
tive extension of its shades,—the dorsal stripe being also less 
sharply defined, though only in consequence of the hair being 
longer. No doubt individuals vary more or less, like individual 
Ghor-khurs. 
Comparing the hoofs together, the only difference that I can 
perceive consists in the fact that the Kyang-skins before me are 
those of wld animals, with the hoofs duly worn by constant ac- 
tion; whereas those of a Ghor-khur, belonging formerly to a 
captive individual, are much less worn, and accordingly are not 
so shapely. The limb-bones present no difference whatever. In 
the skulls the only diversity that I can perceive may be fully 
accounted for by disparity of age. We have the skull of a ma- 
ture female Kyang, with its last molars long in wear; and this 
corresponds with Major Cunningham’s figures of the skull of a 
male Kyangt. With these I compare that of an adolescent 
male Ghor-khur, with the penultimate molars just coming into 
wear, the last being enclosed within their sockets, the two fore- 
most deciduary preemolars (on each side above and below) about 
to be replaced, and a medial pair of permanent incisors (above 
and below) just passing through the gums. A Horse at this 
stage of development would be reckoned as 24 years old. At 
this particular age, I can perceive no further difference than can 
be accounted for by incomplete development on the part of the 
immature Ghor-khur ft. 
Having thus elaborately compared them, it is impossible to 
* Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, i. 443. 
+ Ladak, &c., pl. 6, p. 195. . 
} Since the above was in type, the Asiatic Society has received from 
Major Lumsden, late in charge of the Kandahar Mission, an imperfect 
skin and a skull of an adolescent male Ghor-khur from the vicinity of 
Kandahar. Its last molars were just coming into wear, corresponding to 
about four years old in the Horse. The skin shows the short summer 
vesture, and is of the same cream-colour or light isabelline hue as Major 
Tytler’s three living specimens—the true desert colouring ; and this hue 
