270 MAMMALIA. 



Onager, Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 44 ; Raii Quad. 6 ; Act. Acad. 



Soc. Imp. Petrop. 1777, 258. t. 11 ; Neue Nord Beytr. ii. 22. 



t. 2, iv. 80. 



E. Asinus onager, Schreb. Saugth. t. 312. 

 Equus onager, Brisson, Reg. Anim. ; Pallas. 

 Wild Ass, Bell, Travels, i. 212 ; Heber's Travels. 

 Koulan or Wild Ass, Penn. Quad. 

 Equus Hemionus (Wild Ass of Kutch and the Indus), Sykes, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 91, not Pallas-, I. Geoff. Nouv. Ann. 



Mus. N. H. iv. 97. t. ? , 3 years old. 

 Asinus Hemionus, Gray,, Osteol. Spec. B. M. ; H. Smith, Equidce, 



316. t. 20 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 29 ; Knowsley Menag. 



71. 



Equus Khur (Ane Khur), Lesson, Manual Mamm. 347, 1827. 

 Wild Ass or Gour, Ker Porter, Travels Georgia, Persia, i. 460. 

 Wild Ass or Khur of the Persians, Isis, 1823, 764. 

 Onager, Xenophon ; Barboza, Collect. Ramusio. i. 300, b. (Mala- 

 bar and Golconda). 

 Hemioneor Dziggtai, Lesson, Comp. Buffon,x. 379, from Geof- 



froy; F. Cuvier, Mamm. 1823; not Pallas. 

 The Hymar or Hamar of Mesopotamia, H. Smith, Equida, 313. 

 Asinus Hamar (the Hamar), H. Smith, Equidce, t. 19. 

 Chamor of the Hebrews. 

 Hab. The Plains of Mesopotamia, Persia, Kutch ; shores of the 



Indus, Punjab. 



a. Young (eight months old, died in September). Mesopotamia. 



Presented by J. H. Layard, Esq., M.P. 



b. Adult. India, Kutch. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Skull and bones of body. India, Kutch. Presented by the Earl 

 of Derby. 



They are abundant in Mesopotamia, and are evidently the Wild 

 Ass of Xenophon. The adults are very difficult to approach within 

 rifle range. The ) r oung are sometimes caught alive. Layard. 



The Khur inhabits the deserts of Persia in troops, frequenting 

 the hills in summer and the plains in winter. 



Pallas, in a paper entitled " Observations sur 1'Asne dans son 

 etat sauvage, ou sur le veritable Onagre des anciens" (Act. Acad. 

 Sci. Imp. Petrop. 1777, 258. t. 11), figured a Wild Ass which 

 was sent by sea from Derbent to Astracan. The figure greatly 

 resembles the mule between the Hemione and the Ass now in 

 the Zoological Gardens, but the ears appear a trifle longer. It 

 is coloured in the same manner as the Hemione, that is to say, 

 the more prominent parts of the body are dark, and the middle 



