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ceives, be tested by a comparison of the wild race of either genus 

 which belongs to the Himalaya. 



** For the last year," Mr. Hodgson proceeds, ** I have had alive in 

 my garden a splendid specimen of the mature male of each ; and 

 I have frequently compared them together in all respects of manners 

 and of structure. As the Goat in question, as well as the Sheep, is 

 new, I will begin with a synoptical description of the two, and then 

 proceed to notice the points of difference and of agreement existing 

 between them. 



Tribe Caprid^, H. Smith. 

 Genus Capra, Linn. 



Species Capra Jhdral. — The Jhdral of the Nepalese. 



" Affined to the Alpine jEgagri and to Capra Jemlaica. Adult male 

 50 inches long from snout to rump, and 33 high. Head finely 

 formed and full of beauty and expression, clad in close short hair, 

 and without the least vestige of a beard. Facial line straight. Ears 

 small, narrow, erect, rounded at the tips, and striated. Eye lively. 

 Between the nares a black moist skin. Nares themselves short and 

 wide. Knees and sternum callous. Tail short, depressed, wholly 

 nude below. Animal of compact powerful make, with a sparish, 

 short, and bowed neck; deep barrel and chest; longish, very strong, 

 and rigid limbs, supported on perpendicular pasterns, and high com- 

 pact hoofs : false hoofs conic and considerably developed. Attitude 

 of rest gathered and firm, with the head moderately raised, and the 

 back sub-arched. Shoulders decidedly higher than the croup. Fore 

 quarters superb, and wholly invested in a long, flowing, straight, 

 lion-like mane, somewhat feathered vertically from the crown of the 

 withers, and sweeping down below the knees. Hind quarters poor 

 and porcine, much sloped off from the croup to the tail, and the 

 skinmuch constricted between the hams behind. Fur of two sorts: the 

 outer, hair of moderate harshness, neither wiry nor brittle, straight, 

 and applied to the skin, but erigible under excitement, and of un- 

 equal lengths and colours ; the inner, soft and woolly, as abundant 

 as in the Wild Sheep and finer, of one length and colour. Horns 

 9 inches long, inserted obliquely on the crest of the frontals, and 

 touching at the base with their anterior edges; subcompressed, 

 subtriangular, and uniformly wrinkled across, except near the tips, 

 where they are rounded and smooth, keeled and sharpened towards 

 the points, obtusely rounded behind ; the edge of the keel neither 

 nodose nor undulated, but smooth, or evanescently marked by the 

 transverse wrinkles of the horns. The horns are divergent, simply 

 recurved, and directed more upwards than backwards. 



" Colour of the animal a saturate brown superficially, but inter- 

 nally hoary blue, and the mane, for the most part, wholly of that 

 hue. Fore arms, lower part of hams, and backs of the legs, rusty. 

 Entire fronts of the limbs, and whole face and cheeks, black-brown ; 

 the dark colour on the two last parts divided by a longitudinal line 

 of pale rufous ; and another before the eye, shorter. Lips and chin 

 hoary, with a blackish patch on either side below the gape. Tip of 

 tail and of ears blackish. Tongue and palate, and nude skin of lips 



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