23G On the different Animals known as wild Asses. [No. 3. 



varies much in width in the domestic Donkey, at least in the dimi- 

 nutive Indian race of Asses, being in some individuals of the latter 

 quite as broad as in any Ghor-khur : this mesial stripe, however, 

 seems to be broader down the tail in the Kyang, and is continued 

 down to the black terminal tuft ; whereas in the Ghor-khur (perhaps 

 with exceptions) the line is narrow on the tail and terminates at 

 some distance above the tuft. Again, in the Ghor-Mur the dorsal 

 stripe (which in both is of a dark chocolate colour rather than 

 black) is more or less conspicuously bordered with white — as 

 likewise in the iifmippus, — and this white extends broadly and 

 very conspicuously towards the tail and along the hind-margin 

 of the buttocks, where in the Kyavg (as also, I since find, in some 

 Ghor-khurs,) the hue of the upper-parts is only moderately diluted. 

 Again, there is a much strouger tendency in the Ghor-Jchur 

 for the white of the under-parts to extend upwards from the 

 flanks, in some so much as to join that bordering the broad dorsal 

 streak, and so insulating the isabelliue hue of the haunch; and the 

 zebra-markings of the limbs, common (though not invariably pre- 

 sent) in the Ghor-khur have been denied to be ever traceable in the 

 Kyang, and they certainly are not so in three skins of the latter 

 under examination. In conformity with the general tendency to 

 the extension of the white, as before remarked, that of the muzzle 

 also reaches higher in the Ghor-khur than in either the Kyang or 

 hemippus ; and, lastly, the humeral cross, when apparent, shews 

 itself differently, being faintly visible in full development and placed 

 very forward in the Kyang, while in the Ghor-khur, when it does 

 occur, it is a black cross more or less developed, though never pro- 

 bably to so great an extent as in the true Ass. 



Moorcroft, alluding to the Quagga, remarks that the Kyang is 

 "without stripes," (evidently meaning such as the Quagga exhibits,) 

 "except a reported one along each side of the back to the tail. These 

 were distinctly seen in a foal, but were not distinguished in adults."* 

 In the Society's stuffed specimens, especially when viewed from 

 some distance, the dull ruddy-brown or rufous-chesnut hue (approach- 

 ing to bay, especially on the head,) of the upper-parts becomes 

 gradually but distinctly darker on the flanks, to where it abruptly 

 * 'Travels in the Himalayan Provinces.' I, 443. 



