2. AsiNTjs. 269 



Onagre d'Abyssinie, I. Geoffr. 

 Wiia Ass, Blyth. 

 Wilder Esel, Lesson. 



Hah. Abyssinia, North-eastern Africa, in a wild state. 

 The ears are long and acute, and it brays distinctly, like the Domestic 

 Ass. Other -wild asses have a mnle-liie, shrieking bray. — Blyth. 



ft JEars moderately short, rounded. The Wild Asses. 



2. Asinus onager. (The Konlan or Wild Ass.) B.M. 



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

 over the small of the back; skuU 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. p. 44. 



Onager, Plin. JBM. Nat. viii. p. 44 ; liaii Quad. p. 6 ; Pall. Act. Acad. 

 Sob. Imp. Petrop. 1777, p. 258, t. 11 : Nem Nord. Beytr. ii. p. 22, 

 t. 2, iv. p. 80. ' t: , 



Equus asinus onager, Schred. Saugeth. t. 312. 

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

 Wild Ass, Bell, Travels, i. p. 212 ; Meber's Travels. 

 Koulan or WUd Ass, Penn. Quad. 



Equus hemionus (Wild Ass of Kutch and the Indus), Sykes, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 91 (jxsA Pallas) ; I. Geoff. Norn. Ann. Mm. H. N. 

 iy. p. 97, t. 5 , 3 years old. 

 Asinus hemionus. Gray, Osteol. Spec. B. M. ; H. Smith, :Equid<s, 

 p. 316, t. 20 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 29 : Knowsky Menaq, 

 p. 71. . 



Asmus onager, Gra§, Cat. Ungtdata B. M. p. 269. 

 Equus Khur (Ane Khui), Lesson, Manuel Mamm. p. 347, 1827. 

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

 Wild Abs or Khur of the Persians, Isis, 1823, p. 764. 

 Onager, Xenophon ; Barboza, Collect. Bamusio. i. p. 300, 6. (Malahar 



and Golconda). 

 Hemione or Dziggtai, Lesson; Comp. Buffon, x. p. 379 (bomGeoffrov) ■ 

 F. Cuvier, Mamm. 182S (not Pallas). ^^' 



The Hymai or Hamar of Mesopotamia, S. Smith, Equidts, p. 313. 

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

 Chamor of the Hebrews, 



Sdb. The Plains of Mesopotamia (B.M.) ; Persia, Kutch, shores 

 of the Indus, Punjab. 



In the British Museum is a skull and bones of body from India, 

 Kutch, presented by the Earl of Derby. 



They are abundant in Mesopotamia, and are evidently the WUd 

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

 rifle-range. The young are sometimes caught alive. — Layard. 



The Ebur inhabits the deserts of Persia in troops, frequenting the 

 hills in summer and the plains in winter. 



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



