Vulgar words in Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys (Page 1)
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First, then, there is the domestic _Ass_; and of this species there are almost as many varieties as of the horse,--some of them, as the Guddha of the Mahrattas, not larger than a mastiff, while others exist in different parts of the world as large as a two-year-old heifer.
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Asses are found of a pure white, and black ones are common, but the usual colour is that to which they have given their name--the "colour of an ass."
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Another species of wild ass is the Kiang.
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It is the Dziggetai, and the Wild Ass of Cutch, and also the Yototze of the Chinese; but it is very probable that all these are the names of different species.
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The English on the Gambia call it the "Jackass Deer," from its resemblance to a donkey.
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In the south two kinds are near akin to it--the Harte-beest or Secaama, and the Sassaby or Bastard harte-beest.