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Skull and Horns of Sind Wild Goat. From Mr. Hume’s specimen. 
The PASANG or WILD GOAT (Capra hircus). 
The horns of the Persian wild goat (C. hircus @gagrus), which 
appears to be the ancestral form of the domesticated goat of Europe 
and Asia (C. hzrcus), differ from those of the various species of ibex 
by having no distinct front surface, but merely a sharp notched keel, 
representing the inner front angle of the ibex horn. In old males 
the beard is very long. The general colour of the upper-parts is brownish 
erey in winter and reddish brown in summer, while the under-parts 
are white, and there are blackish brown and white markings on the 
face and limbs. Height at shoulder reaching to 37 inches. 
The so-called Sind ibex (C. Azrcus blytht) forms a second local race 
of the species, inhabiting Sind and parts of Baluchistan, where it prob- 
ably passes imperceptibly into the Persian race. It is distinguished 
mainly by a slight difference in the form of the horns. A third race 
(C. h. raddi) inhabits the Caucasus. Other races are found in some 
of the islands of the A“gean Archipelago, where they appear to have 
been more or less crossed with domesticated breeds. 
Distribution—The islands of South-Eastern Europe, and the mountains 
of South-Eastern Europe and South-Western Asia from the 
Caucasus through Persia to the confines of Baluchistan and Sind. 
Native Persian name, pasang (rock-footed). 
