Suleman Markhor 



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Distribution. — The Trans-Indus hill-ranges of the Punjab frontier, 

 Afghanistan, and Baluchistan, extending in the Suleman range as far south 

 as the neighbourhood of Mithankot, and also found in the Ouetta district. 

 Colonel Percy, in the Badminton Library, remarks that the straight-horned 

 markhor, as he terms the present race, " is found all over the low ranges 

 that run parallel to the right bank of the Indus 

 below Attock ; it used to be found in fair numbers 

 near Sheik Budin, a small station near Dera Ismail 

 Khan, and in the hills, or rather the steep ravines, 

 in the plateau behind Dera Ghazi Khan." 



I have never seen a skin of this race, which is 

 known to me only by the skull and horns, of which 

 there are several good examples in the British 

 Museum. 



Habits. — As the greater part of the distributional 

 area of this race is more or less inaccessible to 

 European sportsmen, very little is known as to its 

 habits. The hills on which it is found are, however, for the most 

 part at least, bare and desolate, with a summer climate of great heat. In 

 this respect the present race is analogous to the Punjab urial ; and, as with 

 that race, its relatively small size is probably due to the hot climate, both 

 sheep and goats apparently attaining their maximum size, both of body and 

 horns, in regions where the temperature is comparatively low. 



Fig. ;7 



Horns of male 

 Suleman Markhor. 

 (Rowland Ward, Re- 

 cords of Big Game.) 



e. SiwALiK Race — Capra falconeri punjabiensis [Extinct) 



Capra, sp., Lydekker, Palaontologia Indica {Mem. Geo/. Sitrv. Ind.) ser. 

 lo, vol. i. p. 171, pi. xxviii. fig. 3 (1880), Cat. Siwa/ik Vert. Ind. Mas. 

 pt. i. p. 17 (1885). 



Characters. — Known only by three broken horn-cores in the Indian 



