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POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



HIMALAYAN TAHR. >;*-; 



precipices, just below timber-line, and in reality is & forest- 

 loving animal. Its hair is the longest to be found on any 

 member of the two subfamilies of goats and goat-like ani- 

 mals. The pair on exhibition have bred here, and the 

 young have been successfully reared to maturity. The 

 youg Tahr is very small, but remarkably nimble-footed 

 and capable. 



The Chamois, (Rupicapra tragus], has constantly been 

 represented in the hoofed-animal collection, but usually out 

 of its proper installation. Our individuals have not thriven 

 on Mountain Sheep Hill, always becoming ill soon alter 

 being placed there. They thrive well, however, in a small 

 wire pen with a sanded floor quite near the Puma and Lynx 

 House (No. 33A), and there we keep them. 



This animal is one of the short-horned goats which, in 

 some respects, approaches the antelopes. It is a bold moun- 

 taineer, and even to-day is pictorially represented as leap- 

 ing "from crag to crag" across chasms apparently 200 feet 

 wide! Its home is in the mountains of southern Europe, 

 especially the Pyrenees, the Swiss Alps and the Caucasus 



