HORS E. 
3 
Aim us. Gefner quad. 5. Ran Jyn. 
quod. 63. 
Efel. Klein quad. 6. 
Equus aunculis longis fiaccidis 
juba brevi. Briffori quad. 70. 
Equus afinus. Eq. caudae exter- 3, Ass, 
mitate fetofa, cruce nigra fu- 
pra. Lin. fyjl. 100. Afna. 
Faunfaec. No. 3c. ed. 1746, 
Afs. Br. Zool.l.11. 
H. with long douching ears, fhoit mane, tail cover¬ 
ed with long hairs at the end : the body generally 
of an afh color, with a black bar crofs the fhoul- 
ders. 
Wild in * the African and 'Tartarian deferts *, go 
in fmall herds 3 extremely fwift in a ftate of nature : 
miftakenly called mules. In a tame ftate, ftupid, 
patient, laborious, obftinate, flow, love mild or 
hot climates, fcarce known in the cold ones. Beft in 
Arabia and the Eaji , 
Mule. Mulus. Gefner quad. 70 2, 
Jyn . quad. 64. 
Maul efel. Klein quad. 6. 
Le Muleto De Buffon } iv. 401. 
xiv. 336. Brijfon quod. 71. 
Equus mulus. Lin. fyjl. Faun, 
fuec. No. 35. Br. Zool. I. 13. 
A fpurious offspring of the horfe and afs, or afs and 
mare: does not propagate again j Arijiotie in that 
miftaken. Is very hardy ; has more the form as 
well as dilpofttion of the afs than horfe. The fineft 
.in Spain, very large ones in Savoy. 
* Leo, Afr, 340, Bell\ Tra-v, I. 224. 
B 2 
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