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spears ; but, with the solitary exception which I have above 

 mentioned, when a man named Elliott speared a jenny on the 

 point of foaling, no wild donkey has ever been run down until 

 my friend Nutt got hold of this one. 



" This donkey was exhibited at the horse show in Poona, and 

 was looked upon as the greatest curiosity and attraction there. 

 She bites and kicks at everyone that approaches her but her 

 own syce. It took a whole day to get her to stand steady, in 

 order to take the photographs I send you ; and at one time she 

 lashed out with her hind legs, and kicked the photographer and 

 his apparatus over. They say there is no possibility of ever 

 taming her. Eraser S. Hore. 



" Bombay, October 27, 1874." 



These accounts of the untameable nature of the Onager 

 and its extraordinary endurance appear to be based upon 

 somewhat imperfect information. After their recent re- 

 publication, I had the pleasure of receiving from Mr. J. L. 

 Harrington, 14th Bombay Infantry, Assistant Superin- 

 tendent of Police at Kathiawar, the following interesting 

 account of the capture of several Onagers, which disproves 

 the previously received information of their great speed, 

 extraordinary endurance and extreme wildness. The 

 statements made by Captain Nutt, in the Oriental Sporting 

 Magazine, and Mr. Blanford in his '' Fauna of British 

 India/' regarding the Onager, have unquestionably been 

 greatly modified by the statements of Mr. J. L. Harrington, 

 who writes as follows : 



" Blanford, in his ' Fauna of British India,' states that there 

 is no instance on record of wild asses being run down by a 

 single horseman, and Mr. Tegetmeier also remarks that it is 

 doubtful whether any Onager has ever been ridden down, 

 except in cases of mares heavy in foal, and also states that 

 even the young have only been captured by employing relays of 

 horses. 



