268 EauiD^. 



1. Asinns vulgaris. (The Domestic Ass.) B.M. 



Grey, with a longitudinal dorsal streak and a dark streak across 

 the shoulders ; ears elongate ; facial line arched. Skidl with sub- 

 orbital foramen as in E. hemionus. 



Equus asinus, Linn. ; Pallas, Zoogr. R.-A. i. p. 263. 



Asinus vulgaris, Gray, Zool. Joum. i. p. 244 ; Knowsley Menag. p. 71 ; 



Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 268. 

 Ec[uu8 asina, Fleming, PhU. Zool. ii. 

 Asinus, PKn. Hist. Nat. viii. p. 44. 

 Ass, Perm. ; Bewick, 

 Asne, Buffon. 

 Ane, Cuvier. 



Asinus onager, " Gray," Bonap. Index Mamm. Eur. p. 34, 1845. 

 Asinus domesticus (Domestic Ass), H. Smith, JSquidcs, p. 314. 

 Equus hemippus, Geoff. Compt. Bend. xli. ; Rev. de Zool. vii. p. 393. 



Hah. Palmory and Bagdad. 



Var. 1. Without any cross. 



Var. 2. Legs and body more or less banded. 



Var. 3. Domestic. 



Guddha of the Mahrattas (very little larger than a good mastiff or 



Newfoundland dog), SyJces, P. Z. iS. 1831. 

 Domestic Ass of Ispahan, S. Smith, Equidce, p. 314. 

 Domestic Ass of Beloochistan, H. Smith, JEquidce, p. 314. 

 Domestic Ass of Thibet, witb a cross hand, Strachey, 

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

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

 The Djaar of Arabia, H. Smith, Equides, p. 311. 

 The LaHsiones or Wild Ass Colts, H. Smith, Equidee, p. 311. 

 LaUsio, Martial, xiii. p. 97. 

 W^ild Ass, Lenant, Vay. an, the Bahar el Ahad; Hoshins, Travels in 



Ethiopia. 

 Egyptian Ass, H. Smith, Equidee, p. 312. 



OSIEOIOST. 



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



Hah. Europe, Asia, and Africa, always domesticated. 



The common Domestic Ass is sometimes of the usual grey colour, 

 without any appearance of the cross. They are sometimes black, 

 and at others white, rarely skewbald ; but this is the common albi- 

 nism and melanism of domestic animals, and when of these colours 

 the cross is not apparent, or at least sometimes only to be seen when 

 the animal is observed obliquely. The legs are generally destitute of 

 cross bands, but they are often seen more or less distinctly cross- 

 banded, especially just over the hocks (the Ribbon-legged Ass, A. 

 vulgaris fasdatus. Gray, Zool. Joum. i. p. 245, and Guddhas of India). 



Var. 4. t(miojpus. Zool. Gardens. 



Equus taeniopus, Heuglin, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 374. 

 Zeura, Loho, Abyssinia, i. p. 291. 



