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Alternative spelling of Przewalski's horse.

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“Joffrey and Eydoux both remarked that the horses were of the small steppe type known as Przhevalskii’s horses.”

“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.”

“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”

“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,^([sic]) snow leopard and ibex.”

“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^([sic]) (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.”

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