Game Animals of India, etc. 



stated to betake themselves to feeding-grounds apart 

 from the rest of the flock ; but in certain places, at any 

 rate, both sexes may be seen together during at least a 

 portion of the summer. It does not appear that bharal 

 and shapo are found together, but bharal and ibex have 

 been observed on the same ground, and bharal and tahr 

 grazing in company. 



THE SIND WILD GOAT 



{Capra hircus blythi) 



Native Names. — Pasang (male), Boz (female), and, 

 COMMONLY, Bozpasang^ Persian ; Borz^ Pushtu ; 

 Sair^ Phashin^ Pachin^ and Borzkuhi (female), 

 Baluchi ; Chank (male), ////, and Haraf (female), 

 Brahui ; Ter and Sarah^ Sindi 



(Plate iv, figs. 1,1^) 



As already mentioned, goats (which include ibex) 

 are so closely connected by means of the bharal and other 

 aberrant species with sheep that it is difficult to draw 

 up a definition for either group. No goat has, 

 however, glands either on the face or between the 

 hoofs of the hind-feet, while the bucks are furnished 

 with a more or less conspicuous beard on the chin, 

 and likewise exhale the well-known " goaty " odour. 

 In the typical genus Capra the horns of the full-grown 

 males, which are of great relative length, arise close 

 together on the forehead, and are more or less compressed 

 or angulated, springing above the plane of the forehead 

 either in a scimitar-like curve or in a spiral. In the 

 does the horns are much shorter and placed further 

 apart at their bases. 



The Sind wild goat — the Sind ibex of sportsmen — 

 is a near relative of the Persian wild goat {Capra hircus 

 agagrus)^ which is itself the wild representative of the 



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