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the hair is white or whitish. Although some degree 

 of individual variation is observable in the extent and 

 form of the black and white markings, it may be stated, 

 speaking generally, that in the full-grown and sub- 

 adult bucks the face, a broad streak from the nape of 

 the neck to the root of the tail, the whole of the latter, 

 a collar on the neck expanding below into a breastplate, 

 the throat, the chin, the beard, the front surface of the 

 legs, with the exception of the knees, and a stripe 

 along the flanks defining the brown of the back from 

 the white of the under -parts and joining the dark 

 streak on the front of the thighs, are dark blackish 

 brown, passing in some examples almost into black on 

 the beard, face, and certain other parts. The knees, 

 the hind and inner surfaces of the fore-legs immediately 

 below, together with the hocks and the corresponding 

 surfaces of the lower portion of the hind-legs, are 

 white. 



Compared with the Persian animal, the Sind wild 

 goat appears: to be slightly inferior in size, with the 

 horns of the bucks either without knobs or carrying 

 only a few small ones. The ground-colour of the 

 coat is likewise decidedly paler. Sometimes the neck 

 and the fore part of the body behind the dark collar 

 are much lighter than the rest of the animal, the bucks 

 often showing a large patch of dirty white on each side 

 o/ the neck, and having the greater part of the body 

 behind the shoulder -collar (which is dark mahogany 

 brown) nearly pure white. Sir Robert Harvey 

 describes them as very different-looking animals to the 

 .specimen figured in JVild Oxen, etc., of All Lands. 

 Another feature is that, in proportion to their length, 

 the horns may be more approximated at their tips than 

 in the Persian wild goat. The three finest pairs of 

 horns on record respectively measure 52^, 48, and' 

 46I inches in length, with basal girths of 7^, 8, and 

 7I inches, and tip-to-tip intervals of 8f, 20^, and 

 14 inches. The second specimen is an exception to 



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