2. Asimrs. 271- 



racter which separates the E. kemionus from the E. Otiager. He 

 further observes that the Mongolians have no particular name for 

 the E. onager of Pallas ; the Tartars no name for E. Jiemionus : the 

 Mongolians called the E. hemionus "Dshiggetei," or more properly 

 " Tsehikitei," meaning long ears, and the Tartars call the E. onager 

 " Kulan." 



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

 that the male M. HablizI 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. Soe. Imp. Nat. Moso. 

 1840, p. 57). 



The Mule with Asinus domesivyus has the short smooth, fiif 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.) . B.M. 



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

 long, rather woolly, greyish, legs whitish), vdth 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 tlie face-Une 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 foecundus, Messersch. MSS. 



Equus hemionus, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop', xix. p. 394, t. 7 (cop; 



Neite Nord. Beytr. ii. p. 31, t. 1) ; Peise, iii. p. 217 (cop. Schreher, 



Saugeth. t. 311) ; Eichw. Faun, Casp. Caur. 

 Equus hemionua (Kiang), Ogilby, in Poyh, Himal. i. p. Ixxi ; Walker, 



Journ. Adat. Soe: lS48yt. 1. 

 Equus hemionos, Podd. 

 Asinus hemionus, Orm/, Zool. Journ. i. p. 244; Cat. Vhgul'ala B. M. 



p. 272 (not Knowshy Menag.). 

 Equua onager, Eversmann, Pull. Soe. Imp. Nat. Mose. 1840, p. 56. 

 ? Asinus onager (Onager koulan, or Wild Ass of Tartary), S Smith, 



Equid(g,i^.S07,t.l8? 

 Asinus equioides, Sodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Peng. xi. p. 287 ; Blyth, 



Journ. Asiat. Soe. Beng. xi. p. 287. 

 Asinus Mang, Gfray, Cat. Mamm. P. M. t. 37. f. 2 ($kull). 

 Wild Ass, Moorcrofl, Travels. 

 Equus Mang, Moorcrofl, Residence at Ladack, i. pp. 311, 443 ; Lesson/, 



Manuel ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1849, p. 29 ; Knowsley Metiagi p. 72 ; 



Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Calc. 1842, p. 286. 

 Equus varius, part., Ham. Smith, Equidm, p. 289. 

 Asinus polyodon, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N H 1847, p. 469, t. 6 



(animal and skaU). 

 Jikta, Shaw, Zool. ii. p. 427. 

 Dshikketee, Penn. 

 Dgiggetai, Ouvier, P. A. i. p. 244. 



