The kiang allows his pursuer to approach no nearer than five or six hundred yards ; he then trots off, turns, looks, and waits until you are almost within distance, when he is off again. If fired at, he is frightened, and scampers off' altogether. The... THE MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY - Seite 86von EDWARD CHARLESWORTH , F.G.S - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1840 - 534 Seiten
...approach no nearer than five or six hundred yards ; he then trots off, turns, looks, and waits until you are almost within distance, when he is off again....under part of the jaw and neck, the belly and legs, are white; the mane is dun and erect; the ears are moderately long; the tail bare, and reaching a little... | |
| 1840 - 456 Seiten
...approach no nearer than five or six hundred yards ; he then trots off, turns, looks, and waits until you are almost within distance, when he is off again....cry is more like braying than neighing. [That of the Djigguilai is a curious compound of both]. The prevailing colour is a light reddish chestnut ; but... | |
| East India Company. Museum - 1851 - 226 Seiten
...approach no nearer than five or six hundred yards ; he then trots off, turns, looks, and waits until you are almost within distance, when he is off again....ass. His shape is as much like that of the one as the other, but his cry is more like braying than neighing. The prevailing colour is a light reddish-chesnut,... | |
| Robert Armitage Sterndale - 1884 - 594 Seiten
...frightened, and scampers off altogether. The Chanthan people sometimes catch them by snares—sometimes shoot them. From all I have seen of the animal I should...ass. His shape is as much like that of the one as the other, but his cry is more like braying than neighing. The prevailing colour is a light reddish-chestnut,... | |
| William Moorcroft, George Trebeck - 2004 - 526 Seiten
...approach no nearer than five or six hundred yards ; he then trots off, turns, looks, and waits until you are almost within distance, when he is off again....ass. His shape is as much like that of the one as the other ; but his cry is more like braying than neighing. The prevailing colour is a light reddish-chesnut... | |
| 1848 - 730 Seiten
...off altogether. The Chan-Kan people sometimes catch them by snares, sometimes shoot them. From all 1 have seen of the animal, I should pronounce him to...neither a horse nor an ass. His shape is as much like one as the other ; but his cry is more like braying than neighing. The prevailing colour is a light... | |
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