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thought fit to establish between them. It has callosities on all 

 four limbs, as in the horse, but only the lower half of the tail 

 is covered with long hairs, as in the ass. The general colour 

 is dun, with a yellowish tinge on the back, becoming lighter 

 towards the flanks, and almost white under the belly, and 

 there is no dark dorsal stripe. The mane is dark brown, short, 

 and erect, and there is no forelock. The hair is long and 

 wavy on the head, cheeks, and jaws. The skull and the hoofs 

 are described as being more like those of the horse than the 

 ass. Until more specimens are obtained, it is difficult to form 

 a definite opinion as to the validity of this species, or to resist 

 the suspicion that it may not be an accidental hybrid between 

 the kiang and the horse." 



Additional specimens of this interesting animal have 

 recently been obtained. The Brothers Grijimailo met with 

 this wild horse in the desert of Dzungaria. The account 

 of their expedition^ which was published in the " Pro- 

 ceedings of the Eussian Geographical Society/' has been 

 translated, with notes by Mr. E. Delmar Morgan, and 

 published in the ^' Proceedings of the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society" for April, 1891. In their account they state as 

 follows : 



" Springs enable the numerous animals inhabiting Dzungaria 

 to exist ; of these the most interesting is Prejevalsky's horse 

 (E. przewalskii) . The only known specimen of this animal, 

 in the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy, was 

 obtained by Prejevalsky from the chief magistrate of the 

 district of Zaisan, who had received it from the Kirghiz. 

 Prejevalsky himself, though he crossed the desert of Dzungaria 

 in three several directions, never came across any of these wild 

 horses, and if he wrote otherwise he was mistaking kulans 

 {E. onager) he had seen in the distance for wild horses, a 

 mistake the most experienced hunters are liable to make, for 

 at that distance it is almost impossible to distinguish between 

 them. It is only by their manner of holding themselves that 



