Clafsl. ASS. ir 



Species II. The ASS, 



Afinus, Raiifyn. quad. 63. Eqaus afinus. lin.fyft. 100. 



Gefn. quad. 5. Eq- caud;e extremitate fetofa cruce 



Kiem. quad. 6. nigra fuper humeros. Faun.Suec, 



DeBuffon'w. 377. _ _ 35 *. 



Equus auriculis longis flaccidis, Br. Zool. 5. 

 juba brevi. Brijfon quad. 70. 



NAMES. 



Brit. Afyn.y^OT. A fen Germ. Efel 



Fren. L'x4ne,/. L'Aneffe Dut. Eezel 



Jtal. Afino, Miccio.y. Miccia Sived. Afna 



Span. Afno,Borrico.y: Borrica Dan. Afen, Efel. 



Port. AfnOjBurro./. Afna,Burra 



THIS animal, tho' now fo common in all parts 

 of thefe iflands, was entirely loft among us 

 during the reign of queen Elizabeth •, HolUngJIoed -f 

 informing us that in his time, " our lande did yeelde 

 no afes." But we are not to fuppofe fo ufetul an ani- 

 mal was unknown in thefe kingdoms before that 

 period ; for mention is made of them fo early as the 

 time of king J Ethelred, above four hundred years 

 preceding ; and again in the reign of y Henry III. 

 fo that it muft have been owing to fome accident, 

 that the race was extind during the days oi Elizabeth. 



* Habitat in magnatmn pr^sdiis rarius. Faun. Suec. 35. edit. I 746. 

 We imagine that fmce that time the fpecies is there extinft, for 

 Linnaus has quite omitted it in the lalt edition of the ¥au7ia 

 Suecica. 



f 109. 



X When the price of a mule or young afs was 12s. Chron. precio- 

 fum, 51. 



II In 1 217 when the Camerarius of St. Allans loH two afles, &c. 

 Chr. pr. 60. 



We 



