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The Wild Horse (Equus prjevalskii, Poliakoff)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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In the time of Pallas and Pennant, as in the days of Oppian and Pliny, it was commonly believed true wild horses were to be met with not only in Central Asia, but also in Europe and Africa. But ere the middle of the nineteenth century was reached, naturalists were beginning to question the existence of genuine wild horses; and somewhat later, the conclusion was arrived at that the horse had long “ceased to exist in a state of nature.”
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page 460 note 1 Bell's British Quadrupeds.
page 460 note 2 A translation of Poliakoff's paper will be found in the Annals and Magazine, of Natural History, 1881. See also Tegetmeier and Sutherland's Horses, Asses, and Zebras.
page 460 note 3 See Proceedings of the Roy. Geog. Soc, April 1891.Google Scholar
page 461 note 1 Flower, The Horse, pp. 78, 79.
page 461 note 2 Wissenschaftliche Resultate der von N. M. Przewalski nach Central Asien. Zool. Theil: Band i., Mammalia; Abtli. 2, Ungulata. St Petersburg, 1902.Google Scholar
page 461 note 3 Beddard, , Mammalia, p. 240. Macmillan, 1902.Google Scholar
page 462 note 1 Sir William Flower, the late President of the London Zoological Society, having more than hinted in 1891 that Prjevalsky's horse was a mule, one would have thought an effort would have been made forthwith to test this view in the Society's Garden.
page 463 note 1 In Mendelian terms, the Exmoor pony proved recessive, the wild ass dominant.
page 463 note 2 For a skiu of a very young Prjevalsky foal I am indebted to Mr Carl Hagenbeck of Hamburg.
page 465 note 1 The complete absence of stripes in the Kiang hybrid is all the more interesting, seeing that the dam's previous foals were zebra hybrids. Evidently the Kiang hybrid lends no support to the telegony doctrine.
page 467 note 1 The presence of hair in the imperfectly-formed hock callosity of the Mongol hybrid, together with the presence of hair rudiments in the developing hock callosity of the common horse, certainly lends very little support to the view held by some zoologists that the chestnuts of the horse are vestiges of glands.