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tioned that it is probable that many races may have been crossed with other wild 

 kinds. Domestic goats exhibit great variety in the form of their horns ; some 

 retaining the backward scimitar-like sweep of the ancestral pasang, while others 

 assume a spiral form recalling these of the markhor. When, however, such spiral- 

 horned specimens are carefully examined, it will be found that the direction of the 

 twist is precisely the opposite of that which occurs in the markhor. 



WW/ 

 angora goat ( T \ nat. size). 



The varieties of domestic goats are almost innumerable, and there is such an 

 amount of difference between the more extreme types that it is at first sight 

 difficult to believe that they all belong to a single species. In certain instances the 

 horns may disappear from one or from both sexes, while in other cases those of the 

 female are quite different from those of the male, and occasionally a second pair 

 may be developed. Equal diversity obtains in regard to the length of the hair, 

 which in the long-legged and pendulous-eared Indian breed is no longer than in a 

 deer ; while in the Kashmir and Angora goats it reaches nearly to the ground. 



