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The coat is thick and longish and clings to the body, being no- 

 where distinctly woolly. On the body it measures, according to Hodg- 

 son, from If to 2 inches in length and in the males it forms a distinct 

 crest along the throat, about 3 inches in length, and grows on the 

 gullet in the form of a beard, 5 or more inches long. The height at 

 the shoulders, according to Hodgson, is 42 inches in the male and 36 

 inches in the female. In both sexes the length of the head from 

 between the horns to the nose is rather Jess than half the height at 

 the withers. 



The horns vary considerably in length as the following table 

 shows : — 



It must be added that the smallest horns recorded in the table above, 

 as measured by Hume, were regarded by him as belonging to younger 

 males than those of the larger size. There can, I think, be little doubt, 

 however that they belonged to females. Hume was evidently 

 puzzled by the growth stages of the horns in this genus, for a 

 frontlet he figured under the belief that it represented the horns of a 

 fine old female, seems to have belonged to a subadult animal with the 



