West Caucasian Tur 



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noticed that this account confirms the statement made above, from the 

 evidence of the specimens in the British Museum, as to the lighter colour 

 of the younger bucks when compared with the patriarchs of the Hock. 



On another occasion, when following a fine old buck of which a 



Fig. 33. — Adult Male West Caucasian Tur. (From Prince Dcmidoff's Hunting Trips to the Caucasus.) 



glimpse had been obtained by his shikari, Prince Demidofi-" was more 

 fortunate. 



" Redoubling my precautions," he writes, " I now crept on alone, and, 

 to my great amazement, there came in sight first one, then two other tur 

 lying on a moraine some eighty yards below. Taking my time, I steadily 

 lowered my rifle and fired at the nearest one ; he dropped his head to the 

 shot, while the other two sprang up. Instantly I fired my left barrel, and 



