122 MAMMALIA. BELLUjE. Equus, 
ORDER VI. BELLU2E. 
Fore-teeth obtufe^ truncate; feet hoofed, 
42. EQUUS. Fore-teeth upper 6, erect, pa- 
rallel ; lower 6, more prominent : tuf^ 
Iblitary, included, remote: teats i 
inguinal. 
1 he animals of this tribe are of great value to tnankind, and ai'® 
ufed for draught, burthen, and the faddle : fight by biting) 
and kicking with the hind-feet : in the males the teats are fi' 
tinted on the ghuis penis'; and they have the fingular pro- 
perty of breathing only through the nollrils and not throng-* 
the mouth. 
Caballus. Hoofs folid ; mane and tail with Ion?, flowing hair. Horh- 
■ i.Wildhorfc. 
2. DomclHc horfe. 
Is cultivated with care in mofL parts of the earth; found in ® 
natural Hate in the clefertsof Gnat Tartary ; fometimes wild i» 
Africa j timid, fwift, vigilant ; moves in flocks, having » 
leader before, with its ears thrown forwards, and a centinel 
behind, with its ears bent back, to guard againft furprife both 
wa)’s ; varies nmch in fize and colour, feeds on grain and 
herbage ; generous, proud, fpirited ; drives away flies and in- 
fefis with its tail ; carefully guards its hind part ; calls after 
its companion by neighing, and fcratches its Ihoulder with its 
teeth ; rolls itlelf when hot ; gall-bladder o ; does not votnit 
or eruftate ; its dung heats and linokes ; changes its fore-teeth 
in the and, 3rd and 4th years, acquires tufks in the 5th; 
gravid 290 days. 
Iltmiortus, Hoofs foil'd; colour uniform, crofs on the back o ; tail hairy 
at the tip only. ff'Ud Muk‘ 
Inhabits delarts of Arabia and China, in gralfy faline plains, 
but avoids wixids and Ihowy mountains; timid, fwift not 
tameable ; hearing and fmell acute ; neighing more Ibnorous 
than the horle ; iu fizc and habits relembles a mule, ears and 
tail a zebra, hoofs and body an afs, limbs a horfe ; 5 feet long* 
Head large, narrowing towards the nofe; neck flender; hail' 
foft ; face tawny ; nofe white at the end ; body above brown- 
r ' . • . ifti, beneatli and on the buttocks white; along the back a 
blatkifh lilt ; tuft on the tstV black ; teeiA 34. 
