Show RE ASKS HOUSE HORSE FOUND Capture Will Wl Show Whether Wether Animal is Morse Horse Hor e or Ass As London Standard Till Ti twenty years yer ago the the th wild wid horse of the steppes steppe de described described I scribed by Pallas Palas was regarded by some continental zoologists as the last survivor of the species to which the wild horse hore of ol Europe of or the Neolithic period belonged Other OUter authorities preferred to consider t the nh horses of o the steppes as feral 1 rather t I than truly wild the tt descendants of do domesticated masticated animals which had escaped from captivity Whichever view is cor correct correct there can be no doubt that the herds of af horses which formerly ranged mom from tam central Asia westward to the havo have in some lome way been modified by an infusion of 0 domesticated blood to which Mr suggests the uniform unior dun color may possibly be due In 1881 the Russian q naturalist Polli Polia Pola koff announced announce that Colonel sky had discovered a distinct species of wild wid horse hore which has since been known as horse hore The species was founded on a skin sent to the tiLe dis distinguished I Russian explorer by the mag di istrate of or the district distrct of or who ob obtained tamed it from some native hunters The skin akin was mounted and is now in the museum of the Imperial of Sciences ScIence at St Petersburg and the spec imen is pretty well wen known from the pho photographs in the te fine album illustrating collection It was said to tobe tobe tobe be intermediate between the equine euine and asinine group having callosities or chestnuts on an the hind limbs as welt well wel as on the fore limbs like a true horse while according to the up upper upper per part pat of the tail tal is shaggy like Uke that of an iss ss and the th lower half like ke that I IT of a horse covered o with long o tine fine n hair h T The ears are smaller r than a those o of the tho f ass the mane is 18 dark brown in color short lock shor and hogged hogge but there is 15 no fore forelock o J In his three Journeys to central cental Asia met with wih but two herds of these horses hores He described the color of or orthe the body as al whitish gray gy fading fading to white on the lower Jower part par of the barrel barre the head hed reddish and the tho muzzle white the legs as remarkably thick whitish on on the th upper half hal of 0 the forelegs which are red rei reddish re dish at the knees knes deepening to black at atthe atthe the hoots hoofs and tho hind legs whitish leg These animals frequent the most desolate I parts of the country countr and especially tho the salt steppes steppes and arc are able to subsist without water for a long period They are hunted in the winter and the hunt hunters hunter huntera ers era er have to depend on ot the snowfall for their own water w t r supply The herds con consist consIst slat of from five to fifteen mares led by bya a stallion The Te first firt herd hed saw he e was able Ie to approach a within range ge He fired i as did his companion mp tl and away went the leader head down and tail tan flying yIng followed by the rest ret of the herd He was even eve less loss fortunate with the second herd for before he could get near enough to fire fre with wih any ay pros prospect peeL of ot success the animals became aware pe of his presence and were off or like Uke the wind 0 0 Some years yea s later the brothers Gnu mallo maUo obtained four skins three skulls and a skeleton in Ute the desert of ot where they the had hd an opportunity of ot study studying studyIng ing inS this animal and watching Us its Is habits habis and they accepted U f rm Uon r of the e eai ai animal r e as a a new species e Sir I William Fowler however suspended Judgment on 01 the matter mater and said that until more specimens had bad been obtained It i was difficult to form for an opinion as to the validity of af the tho species or to t resist the suspicion that It might not turn out outto outto outto to be an accidental hybrid between the klang kiting the wild wid ass of the elevated elevate pla pta plateaus talus teus of af and the le horse hore Quito Quite Quie recently a a specimen was as acquired for far forthe forthe the museum of af the Jardin Jarin des Plantes at Paris Pars Now ow from Hamburg comes come the news ne that a whole herd seventeen stallions and fifteen marcs maresha has been captured by collectors sent out by Herr Her Carl rl Hagen Hagenbeck Hagenbeck beck the welt well wel known dealer deale In wild wid ani animals an mals tunis and Is la on the way to that city where the animals will wi arrive arive In Novem Noem November her ber bel All Alt of ot them are ar foals and each ech has hasa a nurse in the shape of a common rommon Kin Kir K mare mar Some idea of th the difficulty attending lUt their capture capure may be gather d from fram f rom the fact that nearly 2000 ZO natives I Ir were w ere to help the European col r r i j lectors l So a definite pronouncement n tC as aso th to t t o the true character of j horse hore h is now non near at hand That TOtaL it be longs l to the te equine rather than to the te asinine a section n of r the te genus is shown hown s by b b the chestnuts t ts on all al the limbs and a nd the characters of the skull It re remains remains remains mains to to be b seen whether Pol I de tie description s really realy holds good or whether wh ther the he t animal is a variety of feral ferl race of the he t e domestic horse o There will be plenty of o f material for or examination a n ni The breed C ing l eg experiments In n mating with wih domesticated c horses hores will wf be te of o the highest highet im ire importance importance ortance p in settling setting this question queston when the he t fertility or sterility of ot the progeny is i s established |