The Angora or "Mohair" Goat. -69 



comparatively recent date,* it having been imported 

 originally from the mountains of Thibet. This gives 

 colour to the statement that both this and the Cashmere 

 are the produce of the same wild goat (Capra falconeri). 

 Indeed, it is only within the last twenty or thirty years 

 that writers have come to regard them as distinct, for in 

 spite of the great dissimilarity in the appearance of the 



Fig. 8. Angora Male Goat. 



two breeds, the fact that they are both wool -bearers has 

 been sufficient to identify them under the general name 

 " Cashmere or Angora " goats, in which manner they are 

 constantly referred to in old works. An account of the 

 introduction of the Angora into Asia Minor was published 



* The Mohair goat, spread over a large extent of Turkey to- 

 day, is a product of, at most, the last eighty or ninety years, 

 mainly of the last fifty or sixty years, and differs materially 

 from the original Angora, which was confined in a remarkable 

 degree to a small tract of country peculiarly adapted to it 

 (Schreiner on " The Angora Goat," 1898). 



