HEMITRAGUS. 449 
of oak and cedar, and various berries. The young are dropped in May, 
and are one or two (Kotschy says sometimes three) in number. The 
horns appear very early, as shown in a kid of the year procured in the 
beginning of January.” ; 
It appears to be very much troubled with ticks, and an estrus 
or bot which deposits its larvee in the frontal sinuses and cavities of 
the horns. 
SUB-GENUS HEMITRAGUS, 
Some naturalists do not separate this from Cagra, but the majority 
do on the following characteristics, viz. that they possess a small muffle, 
and one of the two species has four mammez. ‘The horns are trigonal, 
laterally compressed and knotted on the upper edge. 
No. 449. CAPRA veZ HEMITRAGUS JEMLAICUS. 
The Tahr (Jerdon’s No 232). 
NativE NaMes.—TZehr, Jehr, near Simla; /haral, in Nepal; Xras 
and /agla, in Kashmir; Xarf, in Kulu; /Aw/a the male, and Zar or 
Tharni the female, in Kunawur; sd and /sdi, male and female, on 
the Sutlej] above Chini (/erdov). 
Hazitat.—Throughout the entire range of the Himalayas, at high 
elevations between the forest and snow limits. According to Dr. Leith 
Adams it is very common on the Pir Panjal, and more so near 
Kishtwar. ° 
DEscRIPTION.—The male is of various shades of brown, varying in 
tint from dark to yellowish, the front part and mane being ashy with a 
bluish tinge, the upper part of the limbs rusty brown, the fronts of legs 
and belly being darker. ‘There is no beard, the face being smooth and 
dark ashy, but on the fore-quarters and neck the hair lengthens into a 
magnificent mane, which sometimes reaches to the knees. There is a 
dark mesial line ; the tail is short and nude underneath ; the horns are 
triangular, the sharp edge being to the front; they are about ten or 
eleven inches in circumference at the base where they touch, then, 
sweeping like a demi-crescent backwards, they taper to a fine point ina 
length of about 12 to 14 inches. The male has at times a very strong 
odour. The female is smaller, and of a reddish-brown or fulvous drab 
above, with a dark streak down the back, whitish below; the horns are 
also much smaller. 
_ Size.—Length’ of head and body, about 43 feet. Height, 36 to 4o 
inches, 
Col. Kinloch, whose two volumes are most valuable, both as 
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