kiangn.
/kɪˈaŋ/, /ˈkiːaŋ/, /kjaŋ/, U.S. /kiˈɑŋ/, /ˈkiˌæŋ/, /ˈkiˌɑŋ/ A species or sub-species of equine quadruped ( Equus kiang), a wild horse or ass inhabiting the high tablelands of south-western China. Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mammals 476, treats it as a variety of the kulan.
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1869 A. A. A. Kinloch Large Game Shooting I. iv. 13 Kyang are found all over the elevated plateaux and valleys of Thibet.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Kiang.
1884 Standard Nat. Hist. V. 251 Three forms [of the wild horse], which are known as the kulan, the djiggetai, and the kiang.
1884 Standard Nat. Hist. V. 251 The Kiang is only found in the mountainous regions of Thibet.
1894 C. Phillipps-Wolley et al. Big Game Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. 361 The kyang..is an ugly donkeyfied fiddle~headed brute, with straight shoulders.
1906 West. Gaz. 1 Oct. 4/3 The kiang [sc. wild ass] is a desert-frequenting species.
1934 Times Educ. Suppl. 22 Sept. p. iv/3 The father is a very old Kiang, a true wild donkey from Tibet.
1960 ‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer xii. 118 The risk of being reincarnated as a female kyang, the wild asses who roamed the tangs and high plateaux.
1970 Guardian 26 Mar. 3/1 Tibet's wild donkeys..known as kiangs.
1973 Times 20 Feb. (India Suppl.) p. xi/3 The plateau of Ladakh in the high Himalayas harbours forms related to those in Tibet such as the wild yak, the kiang, and the chiru.
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