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Kiang— Thibetan Wild Ass. 



This member of the Equidse is shown in Fig. 46 and there is 

 an excellent specimen of it at South Kensington. I have chosen 

 it because it is very unusual among others of its family in the 

 possession of an inguinal and axillary whorl, feathering and crest. 

 No other than the domestic 

 horse that I have examined 

 shows these patterns. They 

 are nearly as well developed 

 as in the horse, and require 

 no special description. It 

 lives in high altitudes up to 

 fourteen thousand feet, and 

 travels often in large herds, 

 its food being composed of 

 the various woody plants of 

 these dry and barren regions. 

 Lydekker says that it "is 

 remarkable for its fleetness 

 and its capacity for getting 

 over rough and stony ground 

 at a great pace." From these 

 facts one can gather that a 

 large portion of its working 

 day would be spent in rapid 

 locomotion from place to place 

 in search of its sparse food- 

 supplies and in avoiding 

 enemies — two paramount ob- 

 jects of its existence which 

 are pictured in the two animal 

 pedometers displayed on its 

 hairy coat 



Fig. 45. — Bongo. Showing on the j 



strong muscular chest, well-formed . 



pectoral patterns. 



Llama — L. 

 I refer here to the true 

 llama or domesticated form of 



the genus Llama, of which the vicunha and huanaco are the existing 

 wild species. In the stirring time when a handful of Spanish 

 Conquistadores under Pizarro conquered and trampled upon the 

 ancient civilisation of the Incas this useful animal was employed 

 to an immense extent as a beast of burden. Lydekker says that 

 at the time of the Conquest of Peru it was estimated that three 



