Abstract
A PERIOD of twenty years has elapsed since Poliakoff described an apparently new species of wild horse obtained by the late Colonel Przewalski in the deserts of Mongolia, under the name of Equus przewalskii. Although only a single example was then obtained, much interest attached to the discovery, as the animal appeared from the description to be in several respects intermediate between the domesticated horse and the wild asses, or, at any rate, the Asiatic representatives of the latter. For a long period nothing more was heard of the animal, and zoologists were uncertain whether they had to do with a real species or a hybrid, or possibly with one of the feral or wild representatives of the common horse. Within the last few years, however, other specimens—some alive—were received in Russia, and one skin was sent to the Paris Museum. Although no very detailed or well-illustrated description of them has hitherto appeared, these specimens appeared to demonstrate that Przewalski's horse was entitled to rank as a distinct species.
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L., R. Przewalski's Horse at Woburn Abbey . Nature 65, 103–104 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065103a0
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