Also kiang. [Tibetan kyang, rkyang.] A species or sub-species of equine quadruped (Equus kiang), a wild horse or ass, inhabiting the high table-lands of Tibet.
Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mammals, 476, treats it as a variety of the Koulan.
1882. Ogilvie (Annandale), Kiang.
1885. Stand. Nat. Hist., V. 251. Three forms [of the wild horse], which are known as the kulan, the djiggetai, and the kiang. Ibid. The Kiang is only found in the mountainous regions of Thibet.
1894. C. P. Wolley, Big Game Shooting (Badm. Libr.), II. 361. The kyang … is an ugly donkeyfied fiddle-headed brute, with straight shoulders.
