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Przhevalskii's horse
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en 1962 Soviet Anthropology and Archeology: Selected Articles from Soviet Journals in English Translation New York, N.Y. International Arts and Sciences Press 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=r3w7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22the+small+steppe+type+known+as%22 1 0038-528X 1639463 Joffrey and Eydoux both remarked that the horses were of the small steppe type known as Przhevalskii’s horses.
en 2003 Przhevalskii, Nikolai (1839–1888) Russian officer, explorer, and geographer https://books.google.com/books?id=D52OAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2458 w:Jennifer Speake Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2013 978-1-579-58247-0 During his expeditions Przhevalskii assembled a huge zoological collection (more than seven and a half million species of animals, birds, and fishes, also discovering the wild camel and the wild horse, known as Przhevalskii’s horse), botanical herbaria (some 15,000 to 16,000 plants, of more than 1,700 species, from among which botanists described for the first time 218 new genera and seven families), and a mineralogical collection.
en 2011 The Illustrated Atlas of Exploration New York, N.Y. Metro Books 102, 276, and 286 978-1-4351-3333-4 Przhevalskii’s horse / On his third expedition (1879–80), while skirting the western Gobi Desert in Dzungaria, Przhevalskii investigated reports of wild horses. Among the new species he discovered was a wild horse now named Przhevalskii’s horse. Przhevalskii’s horses page 102
en 2013 S.Uranbileg; E.Amarbilig Tourism Chinggis Khaan’s Mongolia 3rd Ulaanbaatar chapter VI 182 https://archive.org/details/chinggiskhaansmo0000uran/page/182/mode/1up 99929-6-508-8 Mongolia has diverse and distinctive vegetation and fauna including some rare species such as the Argali sheep, Przhevalskii’s horse, Asiatic wild ass, wild Bacterian camels, snow leopard and ibex.
en 2018 Alexandre I. Andreyev Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii (1839–1888) Alexandre Andreyev; Mikhail Baskhanov; Tatiana Yusupova The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks Eurasian Studies Library 10 Leiden Brill 139 https://books.google.com/books?id=UpByDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 978-90-04-30398-0 1877-9484 His zoological collections consist of over 7,500 specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects, which were real treasure-trove for the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Some of the new species of bird and mammal in it were named after Przhevalskii, such as Przhevalskii’s horse (equus przewalskii Poliakoff, 1881), Thorold’s (White-lipped) dear (cervus albirostris Przewalskii, 1883), Przhevalskii’s gerbil (brachiones przewalskii Buchner, 1889), Przhevalskii’s steppe lemming (eolagurus przewalskii Buchner, 1891), crested tit-warbler (leptopoecele elegans Przhewalskii, 1887), as well as after his assistants, Pyl’tsov, Roborovskii, Kozlov, Teleshov, and Eklon.