KIANG AND ONAGER GROUP 183 



present known only by a single example, reported 

 to have come from the Kirghis-Nor, in the Kobdo 

 district of Western Mongolia/ It is characterised 

 by the straight profile of the face, the rufous isabella- 

 colour of the summer and the full greyish brown 

 of the long winter coat, as well as by the large 

 amount of white on the buttocks, and the distinct- 

 ness of the pure white band on each side of the 

 broad chocolate-coloured dorsal stripe, which reaches 

 to the tail -tuft; the lateral white bands uniting 

 with a broad white blaze on the buttocks, which 

 is larger than in the other races. The short ears 

 have more black at the tips than in the Indian 

 race. In the typical or Persian ghor-khar [E. 0. 

 typicus), from Western Persia, to the southward of 

 the Caspian, the white areas, as compared with 

 those of the Indian race, have become so enlarged 

 as to give the appearance of a white animal with 

 three large fawn-coloured patches on each side. 

 The general colour is silvery white ; the dorsal 

 stripe does not reach the tail-tuft ; and the head, 

 the sides of the neck, a small ill-defined band on 

 the front of the shoulder, a larger quadrangular 

 patch on the side of the body, and the middle of 

 the hip, are isabella-colour, or pale sandy fawn. 

 The facial profile is distinctly convex, and the ears 

 are relatively small. 



Owing to our imperfect acquaintance with the 



^ The locality is doubtful. 



