234 On the different Animals known as ivild Asses. [No. 3. 



that in Kinneir's ' Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire* 

 (p. 42), these animals are actually styled " Zebras or wild Asses !" 



The voice of Major Tytler's Ghur-khurs is a loud shrieking bray. 

 It is decidedly different from that of an animal which I heard in 

 the Zoological Gardens, Eegent Park, which also was a distinct 

 bray, but much less harsh and discordant than that of a Donkey. 

 This animal was probably a hemippus ; and Prof. Is. St. Hilaire 

 remarks that the voice of the hemippus is notably different from 

 that of the * Hemione,' meaning the Ghor-khur. Also that ' ; le 

 braire de nos Hemiones indiens, si Ton veut se servir pour euy de 

 ce mot, differe considerablement du braire de l'Ane, soit domestique, 

 soit sauvage."* When and where the distinguished Professor heard 

 the bray of the wild Ass does not appear on the record ; but the 

 probability is that it differs little, if at all, from that of the domestic 

 animal. 



The Ky any, according to Major A. Cunningham, "neighs like a 

 Horse;" and I suspect that it was upon his authority that Dr. 

 Walker asserted the same, and that he had never heard the voice 

 of the Ghor-kJiur which he described. Agaiu, Mons. Hue remarks, 

 of the Kyang's voice, that " le lienissement qu'ils font entendre est 

 vibrant, clair et sonore."f On the other hand, Moorcroft asserts 

 that " his cry is more like braying than neighing ;" J and in an 

 admirable letter, signed 'Norman Leslie,' which appeared in a late 

 No. of the Friend of India newspaper, giving an account of a 

 Tibetan tour and of the sport obtained in the course of it (includ- 

 ing the ' bagging' of a noble specimen of the wild Tak), the follow- 

 ing passage occurs relative to the Kyany, which is well worthy of 

 citation : — 



" As the spectator stauds on the elevated land by the water-shed, 

 he sees to the north the course of the Sutlej running from east to 

 west through a table-land which is 14,000 feet high, and intersected 

 with ravines; the Himalayas to the south look but an ordinary 

 range of hills scarcely so elevated in appearance as the range beyond 

 the Sutlej which bounds the view, and in which to the eastward the 



* Comptes Bendus, December 31st, 1855, p. 1224. 



t Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans la Tataiie, le Thibet, et la Chine, II. 221. 



X Moorcroft's Travels, I, 443. 



