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and Hungary, with the long tail, &c., that were drawn from life at 

 Hurriana. This race was more esteemed for the quantity of milk it 

 yields than the ordinary Indian Buffalo, with long horns, a shorter 

 tail, &c., and is doubtless the same, in the opinion of Mr. Blyth, as 

 the Guzurat race indicated in Dr. Buchanan's * Journey through 

 Mysore,' &c., which that author, however, observed at Seringapa- 

 tam. It appears to be scantily diffused throughout India, becoming 

 rarer to the eastward. 



Among the specimens was the horn of a Stag, from Kashmir, 

 which Mr. Blyth suspected would prove to be the C WaUichii of 

 Duvaucel, or a closely allied species, a description of which may be 

 expected from Dr. Falconer. The specimen exhibited was 44 inches 

 long, and 8 inches round above burr : it had a brow, a bez, and 

 royal antlers, the bez a foot in length, and longest of the three, and 

 it terminated in a bifurcating crown, precisely as in the Cervus Elaphus 

 of the Sal forest of Nepal, figured by Mr. Hodgson, and supposed 

 by Mr. Ogilby to be C. WaUichii, an opinion in which Mr. Blyth 

 coincided. The general character of this horn was intermediate to 

 that of the Wapiti and European Stag, but agreeing more nearly 

 with the latter in its kind of granulated surface. 



There were also three pairs of horns of the Markhur of Kabul, or 

 Rawacki of Little Thibet, a race of feral common Goats (in the opinion 

 of Mr. Blyth), remarkable for their large size, and also that of the 

 horns, which last are more or less twisted, varying from the curva- 

 ture of those of the Koodoo, only in an opposite direction, to the 

 tense spiral of the Caffrarian Impoof 's horns, as shown by the speci- 

 mens then exhibited. It was remarkable that no tame Goats ob- 

 served by Mr. Vigne in the same countries at all approached this 

 feral race in stature, nor was it known to occur in Persia, or in Ne- 

 pal. From the circumstance of the twist alone of the horns of this 

 animal, Mr. Blyth argued that it was not an aboriginal species ; for 

 whereas an inward spirature, or at least a tendency to it at the tips, 

 w^as all but invariably observable throughout the endlessly diversified 

 races of domestic Goats, neither the wild Copra JSgagrus, nor any 

 other of the numerous distinct species of wild Capr^e known to Mr. 

 Blyth, exhibited this spirature in the least degree ; besides which, it 

 appeared to be alike in no two specimens of the Markbur. This animal, 

 however, as he was informed, did not vary in colour, which resem- 

 bles that of an ordinary brown domestic Goat. A description and 

 figure of it have been published in Mr. Vigne's narrative of his tra- 

 vels in Kabul. 



Finally, were exhibited the skull and horns of a magnificent spe- 

 cimen of the Himalayan Ibex, being the second skull and third pair of 

 horns of this species examined by Mr. Blyth, all of which accorded 

 with each other in the several particulars in which they differed from 

 the Swiss Ibex. The animal is very closely allied to the latter, having 

 a similar rudimental beard, and colouring, so far as he could learn ; 

 but the horns are much longer, considerably less divergent (a constant 

 distinction in both species), and resemble those of the Egyptian Ibex 

 in curvature : excepting towards the base, they are less massive than 

 the horns of the Swiss Ibex, the middle part being narrower ; and 



