236 CAPRINE. 



cloudy, they feed at all hours, otherwise only morning and evening. When 

 alarmed it gives a short hissing snort, which is answered by all within 

 hearing. The female breeds in May and June, gestating for six months, 

 and brings forth her young amid crags and rocky recesses. 



Being generally found in somewhat broken ground, it is easily stalked; 

 and as it is to be found close to most of our hill sanataria, it is generally 

 the first game obtained by the sportsman on the hills. 



Blyth states that those from Assam or Bhotan are very ruddy in tint. 

 Radde has described a species from Siberia, and there is one in Japan, 

 N. crispus. 



True Goats. 



Next come the Goats, having the horns distinctly angulated. Generally 

 speaking, they are devoid of eye-pits and feet-pits. There are two generic 

 types in this group, amongst the animals occurring in-our province. The 

 first is 



Gen, HEMITRAGUS, Hodgson. 



Char. Horns trigonal, compressed, knotted in front ; a small muffle ; 

 no eye-pits nor feet-pits, nor inguinal pores. Teats two or four. 



Sclater does not separate it from the true goats, but most systematists 

 have done so, and Blyth has followed Hodgson. 



" This," says Hodgson, " is a remarkable type, tending to connect the 

 keeled, compressed hollow-horned and odorous goats with the Deer family, 

 of which they possess the muffle and the four mammaa. Its caprine 

 character is clearly indicated as well by general appearance and odour, as 

 by the acute angle of the occipital line of the skull with the frontal, as 

 distinguished from the large rounded angle of the antelope and deer." 



One species has four teats, the other only two. 



232. Hemitragns Jemlaicus. 



Capra apud H. SMITH. BLYTH, Cat. 541. Capra jharal and H. 

 quadrimammis, HODGSON. Figd. by WOLF, Zool. Sketches. Tehr, 

 variously spelled Tare, Tahir, by sportsmen. Jehr, near Simla. Jhdral, 

 in Nepal. Krds and Jagld, in Kashmir. Kart, in Kulu. Jhuld, the 

 male, and Thar, tharni, the female, in Kunawur. Esbu and Esbi, male 

 and female, on the Sutlej above Chini. 



THE TEHR, OR HIMALAYAN WILD GOAT. 

 Descr. The male is dark brown, ashy in front, the inner fur being 



