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has, however, for many years been continually crossed 

 with imported animals of a totally different type 

 which are known to the fancy as " Nubians," and 

 from which a so-call Anglo-Nubianed breed has been 

 evolved. These " Nubian " or Eastern goats differ 

 so markedly in many respects from the British and 

 Continental types of common goats that they may 

 have originated from a distinct wild species. If this 

 was actually the case, it is not impossible that a 

 complication might have been introduced into the 

 heredity of the horn character in their descendants. 

 Many of the imported Oriental he-goats possess 

 horns, but the shape and carriage of these appendages 

 differ totally from that familiar to English goat 

 owners. They are usually small with a downward 

 and outward curve or corkscrew-like twist difficult to 

 describe. It should be added that although the term 

 Anglo-Nubian has always been applied to goats 

 which have been crossed with the Nubian, the cross 

 may be so remote as to be negligible for all practicable 

 purposes. In other words, an Anglo-Nubian goat 

 may be almost indistinguishable from a pure English, 

 as shown in the illustration No. 1, upper figure, or a 

 pure " Nubian," as seen in the lower figure, or it may 

 possess characters peculiar to both races. 



As a check on possible complications due to 

 complex crosses, a separate analysis has been made 

 of horn inheritance in all those goats belonging to 

 the Toggenburg section of the Herd Book. When 

 horned at all the Toggenburg goat has scimitar- 

 shaped horns like those carried by our British breeds, 



