Asrael

the Mohammedan angel o! death, who takes ‘the soul from the body. A (asinus), a genus closely re lated to the horse. It differs from the latter in having short hair at the root of the tail and a long tuft at the end in the absence of warts on the hinc legs, and in the persistence of stripes except in albinos. The upright mane the long ears, the cro stripe on the shoulders, and the dark bands on the back, are also characteristic, The stupidity for which the animal has for long been proverbially reproachec seems largely the result of human in. fluence. The female carries her foa 11 months. The mule is a hybrid bred between mare and male a ; while the hinny is the rare result of hybridism between horse and female a .