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true Goats, but especially in the absence of a beard. The 

 male is generally from three to three and a half feet in 

 height at the shoulder ; the horns seldom exceed fifteen 

 inches in length. The doe, a smaller animal, has four 

 teats instead of two, as in the sheep and other Goats. The 

 coat is fawn brown in colour, arid is long on the neck, 

 chest, and shoulders. The home of the Tahr is chiefly in 

 the elevated forest regions of the Himalaya ; and it fre- 

 quents such almost inaccessible spots that, when shot, the 

 animal often falls down precipices, where the hunter cannot 

 secure his prize. 



Other wild Goats are the Pasang (capra czgagrus), a 

 Persian species, with large scimitar-shaped horns ; the 

 Spanish Wild Goat (Capra pyrenaica), often mistakenly 

 called the ibex, which is found in the Pyrenees and the 

 central mountains of the Iberian Peninsula ; and the Tur, 

 or Caucasian Wild Goat (Capra cylindricornis), which is 

 very closely allied to the sheep. But in form and habit 

 they differ only in unimportant details from the last two 

 species more fully described. 



FAMILY ANTILOPID^ (ANTELOPES). 



This great family of the Hollow-horned Ruminants 

 includes a vast number of animals, some rivalling the 

 largest oxen in stature, and some being so small that 

 they are to the Eland and Gemsbok what the toy terrier 

 is to the mastiff or Newfoundland dog. The majority of 

 them are medium-sized animals of graceful build and 

 about the same calibre as the deer. Like the wild sheep 

 and goats, their flesh is excellent eating, but they only 

 come within reach of the hunter or the natives of the 

 regions inhabited by the different species of the family. 



The Antelopes are divided and subdivided by zoologists 

 into many, more or less, complicated sub-families, differing 

 from each other in many cases in points almost too trivial 

 for notice in a general survey. In not a few cases it is 

 difficult to distinguish the animals from oxen on the one 

 hand and goats on the other. Really, the great family is 



