2. AsiNTTs. 267 



Darwin giyes an interesting description of the breaking-in of the 

 wild young horses of Banda Oriental. — Journal, p. 151. 



Horses do not breed on the southern face of the Hinialayas, but 

 are imported from Thibet. — Mundy, Journ. ii. p. 75 ; Ogilby in 

 Royle, Himal. i. Lxxi. 



Skins of horses are used for cloth, to make chums, &c. — Simpson, 

 Overland Journey, ii. p. 307. 



The roundish marks are caEed copper-marlced in brown, dappled 

 in grey horses. These marks become more visible in the brown 

 horses when they are in high condition. 



Horses are technically called according to their colours. Bay — 

 brown, with black mane and tail ; some have black legs, they are 

 then called bay with black points. Chestnut — red-brown, either 

 dark or light. Brown — nearly black ; if they have a tan mouth 

 they are called Irown-muzzles. Black. Dim-colour. Boan, Straw- 

 berry — very red-grey. Piebald — with three colours. Skewbald, 

 — two colours. Cream-colour. The white mark on the forehead is 

 a star ; if down the face, a blaze. 



2. ASINUS. (The Zebras.) 



The upper part of the tail covered with short hair, and the lower 

 part covered with longer hair forming a tuft ; the fur marked with 

 darker stripes ; the fore legs only furnished with hard horny warts 

 in a similar situation to those in the front legs of the Horse, but 

 there are none in the lower part of the hinder legs. Fur marked 

 with a dorsal and more or less distinct humeral stripes. 



Asinus, Gray, Zool. Journ. i. p. 261 ; Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 268, t. 37. 

 f. 2 (skull). 



* Colour nearly uniform, with a dark longitudinal dorsal stripe ; some have 

 a black stripe across the shoulders. The Asses of Asia. 



Asses of Asia, Gray, Knowsley Menag. p. 74. 



t Bars ekmgated, aauie. The Tame or Domestic Asses, 



These animals vary greatly in size and appearance according to 

 the cUmate. They are large and smooth-haired in the warmer 

 climates ; small and shaggy in the colder countries, 



It is very doubtful if the Domestic Ass is found in a truly wild 

 state ; the asses which have been described as wild appear rather 

 to be domestic animals which have escaped, or mules between the 

 Domestic Ass and the allied wild species ; for when caught they, 

 after a short time, submit themselves to man, which is not the case 

 with what I have here considered the wild kinds. 



Pallas justly observes, " In extensis Asise desertis primam patriam 

 esse quserendam Equiferi et Onagri a Nomadibus in domesticos usus 

 domatorum, seque ac Hemioni hactenus indomiti." — Zoogr. Bosso-A. 

 i, p. 255. This is equally applica,ble to 'the African species. 



