Vulgar words in Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon (Page 1)
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Equus onager ( Wild Ass of Kutch ) 427.
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Equus hemionus ( Kiang or Wild Ass of Thibet ) F AMILY T APIRIDÆ -T HE T APIR Genus Tapirus - 428.
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Apart from the decided external differences between the horse and ass, they have one marked divergence, viz.
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The Wild Ass of Kutch ( Jerdon's No.
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"This wild ass is very shy and difficult to approach, and has great speed.
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It is closely allied to, if not identical with, the wild ass of Assyria ( Equus hemippus ).
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I do not know whether this species is ever known to bray like the ordinary domestic ass.
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The Kiang or Wild Ass of Thibet .
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Captain (now General) R. Strachey wrote of it: "My impression as to the voice of the kyang is that it is a shrieking bray and not a neigh;" and again: "the kyang , so far as external aspect is concerned, is obviously an ass and not an horse."
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It is perhaps more of an ass than a horse, but its ears are shorter, and it is certainly not the gur-khor or wild ass of Sind."
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From all I have seen of the animal I should pronounce him to be neither a horse nor an ass.
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The form, from the fore to the hind leg and feet to a level with the back is more square than that of an ass.
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Colonel Markham says of it that it is something in appearance between a jackass and a thar , with long stout legs, and a strong neck.
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our swamp deer); and the extreme type is that in which the royal is represented merely by a snag, the whole horn being bent forward ( ex .