The Markhor 



disappears, so that the horn is here rounded. Females 

 have much smaller horns, of the same general spiral 

 form. 



The general colour of the winter coat is some shade 

 of grey, and that of the summer coat reddish brown, 

 but old males tend to become more or less whitish. 

 The under-parts, which may be whitish, are ordinarily 

 lighter than the back ; a dark stripe runs from the 



Fig. 17. — Horns of the Astor Race of the Markhor, from a specimen in the 

 collection of Mr. A. O. Hume. 



knees and hocks down the front of the legs to the 

 fetlocks ; and the tail is dark brown. In old males 

 the front portion of the beard is black, and that behind 

 light grey ; but in young males and females, in which 

 only the front portion is represented, it is wholly black. 

 Young animals are greyish brown in colour, with a 

 dark dorsal streak. The horns are black. 



The race with the most widely spread and most 

 openly twisted horns is the Astor markhor, in which 



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