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afterwards backwards and inwards, frequently with an upward and slightly 

 outward terminal flexure, although, as in the other tur, the tips are 

 generally turned inwards. Beard confined to the chin ; long and narrow 

 in old males in the winter pelage (fig. 49) ; in the summer pelage, and 

 in young males at all seasons, reduced to an insignificant tutt (fig. 50). 

 Summer pelage fine and short ; winter dress longer and more shaggy. 

 In the fiarmer the general colour dark grayish-brown, with the nape of 

 the neck, a line down the middle of the back, a band on the flanks, and 

 the greater portion of the limbs black or blackish-brown ; sides of face 

 brownish-white. In winter the upper-parts light brownish -gray, with 

 the nape of the neck, a line down the back, a broad collar on the chest, 

 the shoulders, flanks, tail, the outer sides of the thighs, and the greater 

 portion of the legs blackish ; inner sides of thighs and back ot legs whitish. 

 Beard and horns black. 



The above description is taken from mounted specimens in the British 

 Museum, one of which is evidently an adult male in the summer dress, 

 while the other, judging from the slight development of the beard and the 

 length of hair on the head and body, seems to be an immature male in the 

 winter pelage. Heads of males with the full winter beard are figured by 

 Messrs. Chapman and Buck in Wild Spain. 



In the form and character of the horns the Spanish wild goat is clearly 

 intermediate between the tur of the Caucasus and the true ibex, although 

 nearer to the former than to the latter. In its parti-coloured coat the 

 species is, however, more like the Persian wild goat and some of the ibex ; 

 but it may best be called a tur rather than an ibex. 



The under-mentioned are some of the largest horn-measurements oi the 

 Spanish tur given in Mr. Rowland Ward's book: — 



