CABUL AND SULEMAN MARKHOR 



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Head of Male Suleman Markhor. From Mr. A. J. Grant's Waziristan specimen. 



CABUL and SULEMAN MARKHOK 

 (Capra falconer! megaceros and C. falconer! jerdoni). 



In the Cabul race of the markhor (C. falconer i megaceros), from the 

 trans-Indus districts near Cabul, the horns are nearly straight, but 

 show a slightly open spiral, being intermediate between those of the 

 Pir Panjal and Suleman races. On the other hand, in the latter (C. 

 falconeri jerdont) the relatively small horns form a perfectly straight 

 cone, upon which the spiral ridges run like the " worm " of a screw. 

 The distributional area of the latter race includes the trans-Indus hill- 

 ranges on the frontier of the Punjab, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan, 



