The answer to this question is that what are known as China ponies are a distinct breed averaging about 13 hands in height inhabiting the Mongolian Plains, that whilst these ponies have no distinctive characteristics that will serve to verbally distinguish them from other breeds of ponies living under similar conditions, nevertheless, their locality, the smatiness of the eye socket, the almost constant ewe neck, the length and growth of the hair on body, mane, and tail, together with the tout ensemble would warrant one in saying that an animal was or was not a Mongolian pony.
A definition would mean an enumriation of distinctive characteristics and as the Mongolian pony possesses no characteristic that is not common to other breeds of the equine family such a definition cannot be framed. The pony does differ from other breeds in the degree in which he possesses certain characters, and by which means he can ye recognised. It is by the same means one distinguishes the thoroughbred from the hackney, the Shire from the Clydesdale, the Welsh pony from the Exmoor pony, Hereford cattle from Shorthorn cattle and the red setter from. the golden retriever.
It is possible that exact proportional measurements of the skeletal bones or measurements taken from exact anatomical
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