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A fifth species of goat has yet to be noticed, for 

 which we are indebted to the researches of Mr 

 Hodgson, who makes his observations from living 

 specimens kept in his garden. It is 



THE JAHRAL. 



Capra Jahral HODGSON. 



It is closely allied by the characters of the horns 

 to the Alpine ^Egagri, and still more to the C. Jem- 

 lahica of our last plate. It differs from the former 

 by the less volume of the horns, by their smooth an- 

 terior edge, and by the absence of a beard ; from the 

 jatter, by the horns being much less compressed, not 

 turned inwards at the point, nor nodose. The adult 

 male is fifty inches in length from the snout to the 

 rump, and thirty-three inches high. The head is 

 finely formed, full of expression, clad in close short 

 hair, and without the least vestige of a beard. The 

 animal is of a compact and powerful make. The 

 fur is of two sorts, the outer, hair of moderate harsh- 

 ness, neither wiry nor brittle, straight and applied to 

 the skin, but irrigible under excitement, and of un- 

 equal length and colour ; the inner, soft and woolly, 

 as abundant as in the wild sheep, and finer, of one 

 length and colour. The horns are nine inches long, 

 inserted obliquely in the crest of the frontals, and 

 touching at the base, with thin anterior edges, nub- 



