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CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



E. Suleman Markhor. 

 Capra falconer! jerdoni. 



Capra jerdoni, Hume, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1874, p. 240. 



Capra falconer! jerdoni, LydeJcker, Wild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats, 



p. 294, 1898, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 130, 1907 ; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 367, 1910. 



In the markhor of the Suleman and other Trans-Indus 

 districts, including Quetta, the horns are relatively short and 



FIG. 11. SKULL AND HORNS OF SULEMAN MARKHOR (Capra falconeri 



jerdoni}. 

 From Ward's Records of Big Game. 



form a regular straight cone, on the surface of which the 

 front and hind keels are wound in a sharp spiral, forming in 



