Note 37 — Chapter XIII · INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OF ATAVISM.

Another species of wild ass, the true E. hemionus or Kiang, which ordinarily has no shoulder-stripes, is said occasionally to have them; and these, as with the horse and ass, are sometimes double: see Mr. Blyth in the paper just quoted and in ‘Indian Sporting Review,’ 1856, p. 320: and Col. Hamilton Smith in ‘Nat. Library, Horses,’ p. 318; and ‘Dict. Class. d’Hist. Nat.,’ tom. iii. p. 563.