272 MAMMALIA. 



for E. Hemionus : the Mongolians called the E. Hemionus 

 Dshiggetei, or more properly TscUkitei, meaning long ears, and 

 the Tartars call the E. Onager, Kulan. 



Eversmann remarks that Pallas (IV. Nord. Beytr. ii. 34) states 

 that the male M. Hablizl brought from Persia had no cross, but 

 that the female which was shot on the Murecy had one. He pro- 

 ceeds to calculate the length of the ears of these animals, com- 

 pared with the other measurements of them, and he finds that 

 the ears of the male appear to be considerably (near 2 inches) 

 shorter in proportion than the ears of the female. Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1840, 57. 



The Mule with Asinus domesticus has the short smooth fur 

 exactly like the sire, but with a short narrow cross band on the 

 shoulder ; the ears rather longer and black tipped. 



3. ASINUS HEMIONUS. The KIANG. 



Fur short, smooth, bright red bay; legs straw colour (in winter 

 long, rather woolly, greyish, legs whitish), with a broad longitudinal 

 dorsal streak, broadest over the small of the back, without any 

 cross band on shoulders. Skull : the infraorbital foramen 

 low down, in the centre of the space between the face-line and 

 the base of the teeth, and placed in a line over the back edge of 

 the second grinder, some distance in front of the end of the 

 cheek-ridge. 



Mulus dauricus fcecundus, Messerschm. MSS. 



Equus Hemionus, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. 394. t. 7, 

 cop. Neue Nord. Beytr. ii. 31. 1. 1 ; Reise, iii. 217, cop. Schre- 

 ber t Saugth. t. 311 ; Eichw. Faun. Casp. Caur. 



Equus Hemionus (Kiang), Ogilby, in Royle Himal. i. Ixxi. ; 

 Walker, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 1848, t. 1. 



Equus Hemionos, Bodd. 



Asinus Hemionus, Gray, Zool. Journ. i. 244 ; not Knowsley 

 Menag. 



Equus onager, Eversmann, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1840, 56. 



? Asinus onager (Onager Koulan or Wild Ass of Tartary), H. 

 Smith, EquidcB, 307. t. 18? 



Asinus Equioides, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xi. 287 ; 

 Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xi. 287. 



Wild Ass, Moorcroft, Travels. 



Equus Kiang, Moorcroft, Residence at LadacJc, i. 311. 443 ; Les- 

 son, Manuel-, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 29; Knowsley 

 Menag. 72; Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Calc. 1842, 286. 



Equus varius, part., Ham. Smith, Equida, 289. 



Asinus polyodon, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N. H. IS4J, 469. 

 t. 6, animal and skull. 



