Game Animals of India, etc. 



domesticated goat. The Persian wild goat is of 

 comparatively slender buiki, standing about 37 inches 

 at the withers. In old males the long scimitar-shaped 

 backwardly- curving horns are compressed, with the 

 front edge sharp and keeled for some distance above 

 its base, after which it carries several bold and widely 



Fig. 14. — A Sind Wild Goat, killed in the Lora Haman Hills, north-west of 

 Kelat, by Sir Robert Harvey. 



separated knobs. On their inner side the horns are 

 nearly flat, externally they are convex, and posteriorly 

 rounded off. Although occasionally directed outwards, 

 their tips are usually inclined inwards ; throughout 

 their length they are marked by faint transverse 

 striations, and in colour they are nearly black. In the 

 does (plate iv, fig id) the horns are less compressed, 



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