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becoming, however, lighter in summer, with an 

 almost black line along the back. The male has 

 a black beard. The females and young are lighter 

 in hue. The animal is smaller than the Himalayan 

 ibex, and is found at very much lower elevations. 

 The difference between the horns of this species 

 and those of any other of its tribe is well described 

 by Lieutenant-Colonel R. Heber Percy in " Indian 

 Shooting," in one of the two volumes on Big Game 

 Shooting in the Badminton Library, in the following 

 words : " Instead of having a flat front and being 

 thinner behind than in front, as most other ibex 

 horns are, these horns have the edge in front, a 

 scimitar-like ridge running up the front of the horn, 

 wavy but unbroken for about one-third above the 

 head, and then represented by knobs which spring 

 up at some distance apart for about another third, 

 when the ridge appears again, but rapidly dies 

 away towards the point. The sides of the horn, 

 too, are smooth, the outer side rounded and the 

 inner flat, the knobs not running down the sides 

 as in other ibex." 



This animal has been shot with horns of over 

 50 inches in length, but anything approaching 40 

 inches is well worth shooting. 



The sportsman who may wish to shoot this 

 animal should read the account given of it in the 

 above-mentioned volume of the Badminton Library, 

 and 'also Sterndale's notice of it in his Natural 

 History of Indian Mammalia. 



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