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Goats 



remarkable association, when it is remembered that the former species is 

 unknown in the typical habitat of the Pir-Panjal race of the latter. In 

 Astor and Gilgit the young, which may be either one or two in number, 

 are born in May and June. 



Markhor, probably of the Pir-Panjal race, hav^e repeatedly bred in 

 captivity with the domestic goat. 



Fig. 55. — Oblique view of Head of male .Astor Markhor. (From Darrah's Sport in the 

 Uighlandi of Kashmir.') 



h. Pir-Panjal Race — Capra fai.coneri cashmiriensis 



Characters. — Size large, the height reaching to 40 or 41 inches at the 

 shoulder. Horns of males with the spiral less open than in the typical 

 race, and showing in fine examples from one to two complete turns. As 

 observed by Mr. Blanford, the horns of this race pass into those of the last 

 and the next by every conceivable gradation, probably on the confines of 

 their respective distributional areas. 



The following are some of the largest dimensions of horns of this and 

 the preceding race recorded by Mr. Rowland Ward : — 



