The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . red byMr Hagenbeck reached this country, and specimens are now inthe Zoological Gardens, and in the possession of the Duke ofBedford, the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Professor J. C. Ewart\ Since then Mr Hagenbeck has imported a second batchof young Prejvalsky horses, some of which with their Mon-golian foster-mothers are here reproduced (Fig. 19) from aphotograph kindly sent me by him. Thus the habitat of this animal, as at present known, isa tolerably confined region, being a quadrangular area boundedon the north by lat. 48°, on the south by
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . red byMr Hagenbeck reached this country, and specimens are now inthe Zoological Gardens, and in the possession of the Duke ofBedford, the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Professor J. C. Ewart\ Since then Mr Hagenbeck has imported a second batchof young Prejvalsky horses, some of which with their Mon-golian foster-mothers are here reproduced (Fig. 19) from aphotograph kindly sent me by him. Thus the habitat of this animal, as at present known, isa tolerably confined region, being a quadrangular area boundedon the north by lat. 48°, on the south by lat. 46°, on the west bylong. 84°, and on the east by long. 90-1. Mr Hagenbeck informs me that wild horses of anothervariety are said to exist 600 miles south of Kobdo, that is,somewhere in the great Gobi desert. 1 Tegetmeier, Field, 11 Jau. 1902, p. 68 (with illustration of those in thecollection of the Duke of Bedford); 8 Mar. 1903, p. 362 (notice of specimens inRegents Park, and in Mr Walter Rothschilds collection). ] THE EXISTING EQUIDAE 29. 30 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. At the time when Poliakoffs paper appeared zoologistshad settled down to a firm belief that no true wild horsesexisted, or indeed had existed for a very long time, sinceSanson and Pietrement had concluded that all primitive wildhorses had disappeared in prehistoric times. True it was thatPallas had declared that he had seen wild horses with suberectmanes in Tartary, and Moorcroft and the brothers Gerrard,when they penetrated into Independent Tartary and within theborders of China, met with numerous herds of wild horses,scouring along the table-lands some 16,000 feet above the sea,but it had become a matter of faith with many naturaliststhat all the wild horses of Asia were sprung from the commonRussian country horses turned loose for want of fodder duringthe siege of Azov in 1697. But in both the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries there were not wanting those whoneither believed that all the known wild h
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