120 THE JAHRAt* 



compressed, subtriangular, and uniformly wrinkled 

 across, except near the tips, where they are rounded 

 and smooth, peeled and sharpened towards the points, 

 and obtusely rounded behind. The colour of the 

 animal is a saturate brown superficially, but inter- 

 nally, heavy blue, and the mane for the most part, 

 wholly of that hue. Fore arms, lower part of the 

 horns, and back of the legs rusty, entire fronts of the 

 limbs, and whole .face and cheeks, blackish-brown, 

 the dark colour on the two last parts divided by a 

 longitudinal line of pale rufous, and another before 

 the eye shorter. Lips and chin hairy, with a blackish 

 patch on either side below the gape ; tip of the tail 

 and ears blackish, tongue, palate, and naked skin of 

 the lips and muzzle, black. Iris deep reddish hazel. 

 The Jahral is found wild in the Kachan region of 

 Nepaul, in small flocks or solitary. It is bold, capri- 

 cious, wanton, eminently scansorial, pugnacious, and 

 easily tamed and acclimated in foreign part*,* 



Having thus noticed what are now esteemed as 

 the distinct species of the Goat 01 genus Capra exist- 

 ing in a state of nature, we shall proceed to survey 

 one or two of the principal breeds or varieties, some 

 of which are very different from the animals we have 

 been now describing, and seem almost to assume a 

 distinct and continued breed, so that there is much 

 difficulty in supposing them, as ever derived from any 



* Hodgson, Proceedings of Zoological Society, part iL 

 p. 106. 



