MAMMALIA. 269 



Equus asina, Fleming, Phil. Zool. ii. 



Asinus, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 44. 



Ass, Penn. ; Bewick. 



Asne, Buffon. 



Ane, Cuvier. 



Asinus onager, " Gray," Bonap. Index Mam. Eur. 34, 1845. 



Asinus domesticus, Domestic Ass, H. Smith, Equidce, 314. 



Var. Without any cross. 



Var. Legs and body more or less banded. 



Domestic varieties. 

 Gudha of the Mahrattas, very little larger than a good mastiff or 



Newfoundland dog, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831. 

 Domestic Ass of Ispahan, H. Smith, Equidce, 314. 

 Domestic Ass of Beloochistan, H. Smith, Equidce, 314. 

 Domestic Ass of Thibet, with a cross band, Stachey. 

 The Pico of ancient Egypt, H. Smith, Equidce, 314. 

 Tasandunt of the Shelluhs, H. Smith, Equidce, 314. 

 The Djaar of Arabia, H. Smith, Equidce, 311. 

 The Lalisiones or Wild Ass Colts, H. Smith, Equidce, 311. 

 Lalisio, Martial, xiii. 97. 

 Wild Ass, Lenant, Voy. on the Bahar el Ahad; Hoskins, Travels 



in Ethiopia. 

 Egyptian Ass, H. Smith, Equidce, 312. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Asne, Daubenton, Buffon H. N. iv. t. 12, 13. 



Skeleton, mounted. 



The common Domestic Ass is sometimes of the usual grey 

 colour, without any appearance of the cross. They are some- 

 times black, and at others white, rarely skewbald; but this 

 is the common albinism and melanism of domestic animals, and 

 when of these colours the cross is not apparent, or at least some- 

 times only to be seen when the animal is observed obliquely. 



ft Ears moderately short, rounded. The Wild Asses. 

 2. ASINUS ONAGER. The KOULAN or WILD Ass. 



Pale reddish (in winter greyish) ; dorsal streak black, rather 

 wider over the small of the back; skull with the infraorbital 

 foramen high up, about one-third the space between the face-line 

 and the back edge of the teeth ; far back being directly over the 

 front end of the cheek ridge and the back edge of the third 

 grinder. 



Asinus sylvestris, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 44. 



