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young shoots of dwarf oaks and cedars, and berries constitute their staple 

 food in these districts. The kids, which are usually either one or two in 

 number, are born in May. 



/;. SiND Wild Race — Capra hircus blythi 



Capra blythi, Hume, Froc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1874, p. 240, no description. 



Characters. — Size smaller than in the Persian race ; the front edge of the 

 horns of the males either totally devoid of knots, or with only a very few 

 and these very small ; and the ground-colour of the pelage very much 

 paler, but the face-markings darker and more sharply defined. From the 

 table on p. 262 it will be seen that, length for length, the Sind race has 

 the tips of the horns closer together than in specimens from other districts. 



The name C. hlythi was applied by Mr. Hume to the Sind wild goat in 

 order to distinguish it from C. caucasica, with wdiich it had been confounded, 

 but as no description was given, the name must date from the present use. 

 A skull and horns presented by Mr. Hume to the British Museum (No. 

 91, 8, 7, 160) may be taken as the type, their place of origin being Sind. 



Distribution. — Sind and Baluchistan ; in the eastern districts ot the 

 latter country probably intergrading with the Persian race. 



c. Domesticated Breeds — Capra hircus tvpica 



JEgoceros hircus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. vol. i. p. 227 (181 1). 



Hircus agagrus. Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 152 (1852), nee 

 Capra agagrus, Gmelin, 1788. 



Capra dorcas, Reichenow, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. vol. iii. p. 591, pi. xv. 

 (1888), Zool. Garten, vol. xxix. p. 29 (1888). 



The domesticated goat of Sweden, which is the typical representative 

 of the species, is certainly the descendant of the wild cegagrus, as are also 



