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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



XXXVII. IQ'Ey:. {Capra sibirica) 

 Cashmere, ^Kale^; Ladak, ^ Skeen^ ; Pangi and Lahoul, ' Tangror 



Ibex vary very much in colour according to age, locality and 

 the season. In their winter coats the old bucks, though looking 

 almost white at a distance, and showing up conspicuously among 



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In his summer coat 



the brown young bucks and females, are really very patchy 

 looking at close quarters, the head and part of the neck being 

 a sepia brown, the middle of the body generally yellowish white 

 with a dark stripe on the back, and the quarters again brown, 

 with legs of dark sepia. In the summer they are sepia- 

 coloured all over, the head and neck often darker than the body 



