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base. The coat in the female should be fairly thick, but 

 the hair should be soft and, as already stated, short, or at 

 most of medium length. The neck is long and slender, 

 and there should be always the two tassel-like appendages 

 observable now and again in other breeds. There is 

 generally a beard in the female, but in the male it is long 

 and heavy. With him also, as with most male goats, the 

 hair of the body is longer and thicker, especially at the 

 neck, chest, and also on the thighs. On many of the 

 females this extra length of hair is noticeable on the hind- 

 quarters, and frequently it forms a fringe along the back. 

 The Toggenburg is nearly always a lean animal, small in 

 bone, of medium size, with a slender neck, and frequently 

 protruding hip-bones. Although this and its prominent 

 ribs are no fault, these latter, as they should be, are well 

 sprung; indeed, flat-sidedness is a very uncommon defect 

 with this breed. 



The average height of the Toggenburg she-goat 

 is from 28in. to 2pin. at the withers ; but English-bred 

 specimens are generally larger than those that have been 

 imported, the size having greatly increased since they were 

 first introduced. Thus Polidore (a well-known male 

 owned by the late Mr. Paul Thomas, to whom the credit is 

 due of having first imported this breed into England in 

 1884) scaled nylb., a weight greatly exceeded in later 

 years by Mrs. Straker's Kaiser, which in 1906 weighed 

 137 Jib., and more recently by Mrs. Handley Spacer's 

 Copthome Nimrod, the largest and heaviest male Toggen- 

 burg that has been yet produced in this country (see Fig. 

 36, page 267), which at two years old weighed iSilb., 

 his height being 35in. (This goat died, unfortunately, on 

 his return from Tunbridge Wells Show in July, 1909.) 

 Similarly Galatea, a first prize she-goat, weighed in 1893, 

 at five years old, 97^1b. ; whilst Mr. Sam Woodiwiss's 

 Sedgemere Belmont in 1906 weighed ii5lb., and his 



