3*8 



BIG GAME SHOOTING 



XXXVII. IBEX (Capra sibirica] 

 Cashmere, ' Kale ' ; Ladak, ' Skeen ' ; Pangi and Lahoul, ' Tangrol ' 



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 





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 



