CAPRA. 



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This has massive horns forming a very open spiral, never exceed- 

 ing 1| turns. 



2. The Pir Panjal markhor. (Fig. 165.) The spiral is less open. 

 The horns have from 1 to 2 turns of the spiral in fine heads. This 

 race extends, I helieve, to Hazara and Gilgit, hut it passes into the 

 last and the next by every possible gradation. A horn of this or 

 the first variety is said to have measured 63 inches round the curve 

 (starting at back of born) and 14 - 75 in girth at the base. Good 

 horns measure 36 inches straight from base to tip, and 45 to 50 

 round the curve. 



3. True C. megaceros of Hutton, from near Cabul. (Fig. 166.) 

 Horns almost straight, but still having a slight spiral. Hutton had 

 a horn of this that measured 42 inches straight from base to tip and 

 44 round the (? front) curve ; horns of 60 inches are said to occur. 



4. The Suleman race, for which the name of O.jerdoni was pro- 

 posed by Mr. Hume. (Fig. 167.) Many, perhaps most horns of this 



Fig. 166. Head of Capra falconcri, 

 Cabul var. (Copied from Button's 

 figure of C. megaceros.) 



Fig. 167. Head of Capra fal- 

 coneri, Suleman var. (C.jerdoni, 

 Hume). (Copied from Kinloch's 

 ' Large Game Shooting.') 



race are absolutely straight and conical, with the two keels, anterior 

 and posterior, wound spirally round, the curve of the spiral much 

 sharper than in other varieties, so that in good horns there are two 

 or three complete turns. Other heads, however, show a complete 

 passage into the Cabul form. The longest recorded horns of the 



