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TAHR 355 
Head of Tahr. 
The TAHR (Hemitragus jemlaicus). 
The tahr and its relatives are the first representatives of that great 
group of ruminants which includes the true goats and sheep. In all 
these animals horns are, as a rule, present in both sexes, and are 
generally more or less distinctly angulated; while the cheek-teeth 
have tall and narrow crowns like those of the serows, which the tahr 
serve to connect with the true goats. From the latter tahr are readily 
distinguished by the small size of their horns, which exceed but little 
in length the head, as well as by the absence of a beard on the chin of 
the males. The typical tahr is easily recognised by the great 
length of the hair of the body, which, although in museum specimens 
generally combed straight, is very shaggy in nature; and likewise by 
the form of the horns, which have a knotted sharp keel in front. Height 
at shoulder from 36 to 40 inches ; weight about 200 lbs. Mr. Wilson, 
“Mountaineer,” had a pair of horns with a length of 163 and girth 
104 inches, as measured by Mr. A, O. Hume. 
Distribution —The Himalaya, from Bhutan to Kashmir. 
