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Description of the Wild Ass of Tibet. 



Dimensions of a male and female Kiang, and of a Tanghan 

 or Tibetan pony : 



Muzzle to anus, . . 

 Tail, minus tuft, . . 

 Tail, with tuft, . . 

 Head, length of, . . 

 Ditto, extreme depth, 

 Ditto, extreme width, 

 Ears, length of, . . 

 Height at shoulder, 

 Fore-leg, top of cannon-bone"! 

 to point of hoof, J 



Hind-leg, ditto ditto, 

 Fore-hoof, length, 



width, 



Hind-hoof, length, 

 width, 



Length, from base of incisors to condyles 



of foram. mag. 

 Ditto, from ditto to most salient point of 



occipital crest, 

 Breadth (greatest), between extreme ex- 

 panse of zygom. arches, 

 Breadth (least), between nearest margins 



of orbits, 

 Breadth of encephalon between temporals, 

 Greatest depth or height, 

 Base of incisors to fore-angle of orbits, . . 

 Fore-edge of orbit to most posteal part of 



scull, 

 Diameter of orbit, 

 Greatest breadth between outer margins 



of upper molar teeth, 

 Ditto between ditto of lower molars, 

 Interval between nearest incisor and 



molar upper jaw, . . 

 Ditto ditto lower jaw, 

 Teeth, 



K 



Male. 



6 6 



[ANG. 



Female. 



6 2 



Tanghan. 

 Male. 



6 6 



1 



1 



1 







1 



1 



2 



9 



2 



6 



3 



1 



1 



81 



1 



8 



1 



84 







11 







11 







10* 







» 







8 







8 







7* 







' 2 







§i 



3 



9 



3 



5 



4 



1 



1 



a* 



1 



Z 2 



1 



34 



1 



43. 



1 



4 



1 



6 







H 







4 







H 







H 







2^- 







3* 







4 







°8 







4* 







id} 



3 



Female . 



les 



1\ less 4 



Sculls. 

 Kiang. Male Tanghan 







1 



O4 



1 



6 



H 







8~ 







7i 



'2 







5| 







4J 







3f 







34 







10* 



1 



10* 







10 







9* 







8 







84 







2f 







2f 







4* 







4f 







3f 







34 







3i 







34 



2f 



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