MAMMALIA. BELLU2E. Horfe. 34 



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Yo-to-tfe. Du Halde, ii. 253. — 'Hfitatis. Arift. hid. an. vi. c. 36. — Hemionos. Plin. hill:, nat. 



viii. c. 44 Czigithai. Sm. BufF. vi. 274. — Dfhikketei, Wild Mule, Half-afs, or Fecund Mule - 



Penn. hift. of quad. n. 2. Zimmermann. 666. 



Inhabits the deferts between the rivers Onon and Argun, the Mongalian deferts, and the great 

 defert of Gobi between China and Thibet. — Lives in herds chiefly frequenting funny plains, places' 

 where fait fprings and faline plants abound, and graffy meadows, but avoiding woods and fnowy" 

 mountains. It is exceedingly fhy, cautious, timid, and very fwift, having very acute fenfes of fmell 

 and hearing, is very wild, and has not hitherto been tamed. Like horfes and cattle, they are very 

 fubjeft to a diitemper called the Murrain ; they fight by kicking and biting ; the female is in feafon 

 in Auguft, and brings almoft always one foal in fpring ; the flefh is reckoned excellent by the Mon- 

 guls and Tungufi, and they ufe the fkins for conftrudting a kind of boat. In flze and general an-, 

 pearance this animal refembles the Mule, though handfomer ; the ears and tail are like thofe of the 

 Zebra, the hoofs and the body are like the Afs, and the legs refemble thofe of the Horfe; it differs- 

 from thefe quadrupeds in having a very large head with a flat fore-head, which grows narrow towards 

 the nofe, and in having a {lender neck, which is more rounded than in the other fpecies of this me- 

 lius, and has a fhort, upright, foft, greyifh mane; inftead of a lock of long hair on the fore-top,- 

 there is a tuft of downy hairs not two inches long ; the ears are long, ereft, and lined thickly with 

 whitifh curly hair; the winter coat is about an inch and a half long, grey at the tips, of a brownifh 

 afh colour at the roots, exceedingly foft, and undulated on the back ; in fummer the coat is much 

 fhorter, and exceedingly fmooth, being marked all over with beautiful whorls : The end of the nofe 

 is white, and the reft of the face fomewhat tawny ; the buttocks, infide of the limbs, and the bellv, 

 are white; a blackiih lift runs along the back, broadeft at the loins, and narrowing to the tail; the 

 tail is like that of a Cow, covered with fhort hair for half its length, and the lower part with long 

 afh coloured hairs. The weight of this animal is about five hundred and fixty pounds ; it meafures 

 fix feet and a half from the tip of the nofe to the origin of the tail, and is about three feet nine inches 

 high at the fhoulder : The mouth contains thirty-four teeth, which is two fewer than in a Horfe. 



3. Afs. — 4. Equus Ajhius. 2. 



Has folid hoofs ; the male has a dufky crofs on the (boulders ; only the lower part of 

 ■ the tail is furnifhed with long hairs. Syft. nat. ed. xii. 100. n. 2. Faun. fuec. i. n. 35. 

 BrifT. quad. 70. 



Afne, or Afs. Sm. BufF. iii. 198. pi", xii. — Efel. Gefn. thierb. 91.^— Afs. Penn. hift. of quad", 

 n, 3. Brit. zool. i. n. 2. 



a.. Onager. — 2. a. E. Jjinus fonts* 



The fore-head is much arched ; the mane is woolly and dufky ; the ears are long and- 

 erect. 



Qix-y^i. Oppian. cyneg. iii. 183.— Onager. Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 44. 58. Aldrov. folid. 352. 

 Jonft. quad. 20. t. 7. 8. Raj. quad. 63. Pall. acL Petrop. 1777, ii. 258. Varro, de re ruft. ii. c. 6. 



Martial, xiii. 97. Pomp. Laet. i. Profp. alp. aeg. iv. c. 6. Tavern, i. 21 Onagrus. Gefn. quad. 



19. — Annus. Charlet. exerc. 4.— Equus Onager. BrhT. regn. an. 104. n. 5.— Afne fauvage. Mar- 

 mol. afr. i. 53.— Wild Afs. Bell, trav. i. 212— Wilder Efel. Pall. nord. beytr. ii. 22. t. 1. Ha- 

 blizl, in D". iv. 88.— Koulan, or Wild Afs. Penn. hilt, of quad. a. 3. A. 



Inhabits 



