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Hdbits. — The habits of this tur, the cabra montes of the Spaniards, 



Fig. 50. — Side view of Head ot' male Spanish Tur with the heard reduced to a tutt. 

 (Rowland Ward, Rccoiuis of Big, Cir/ic.) 



have been well described by Messrs Chapman and Buck in IJ'iU Spain, and 

 by Mr. E. N. Buxton in Short Stalks, although in one respect there is an 

 apparent discrepancy between the two accounts. Mr. Buxton, for instance, 

 states that the Spanish tur, unlike the ibex of the Alps, takes full advantage 

 of the covert afforded by dense scrub, and suggests that to this habit is due 

 the incurving of the points of the horns which torms such a characteristic 

 feature of the present species. On the other hand, Messrs. Chapman and 

 Buck, in the passage cited under the heading of the Andalusian race, speak 

 of the rams frequenting the highest mountain peaks at elevations of some 



