146 MAMMALIA. 



but sometimes of forty or fifty. If alarmed when feeding, they 

 go off at speed with a noise like thunder, but anon halt to gaze 

 on the intruder, whose shot sends them off again under the gui- 

 dance of an old male, whom they follow blindly. They rut in 

 winter, and the female gestates six months, producing one young 

 in June or July. They are more dauntless and skilful climbers 

 than the Wild Sheep. If they can but touch a rough edge or 

 crevice now and then, they will run up nearly perpendicular pre- 

 cipices of many feet elevation, and they will stand on a bit of 

 rock not larger than one's palm, looking confidently down over 

 sheer space, with not a shrub to break the awful absence of rest 

 for the foot. 



"The Jharal breeds with the domestic Goat, and perhaps 

 more nearly resembles the ordinary model of the tame than any 

 wild species yet known." Hodgson, J. A. S. B. iv. 491, 1839. 



" I never could get any progeny from the Goats by the Jharal, 

 though my male had commerce with Goats of several breeds re- 

 peatedly during the six years he lived with me, quite tame and 

 going abroad with the Sheep and Goats." Hodgson. 



" In February 1842, a male Jharal in possession of the Court 

 of Nepal had intercourse with a female Cervus Axis, which in 

 July produced a young hybrid of mixed appearance, but more 

 like the mother than the father, which lived and grew up a fine 

 animal; I saw it last in October 1843. I note the circumstance 

 as a strong corroboration of the affinity of the Hemitragus to the 

 Deer, which is indicated by the four teats and moist muzzle." - 

 Hodgson. 



2. KEMAS. 



Nose cervine. Muffle small, moist between the nostrils. 

 Horns short, recurved, thick, subquadrangular, flat in front, and 

 rounded on the outer side, closely ringed. Interdigital pores and 



suborbital pores none. Hair short, adpressed. Tail . Male 



bearded. Odour like Goats. Female : horns smaller, very like 

 male. 



Hemitragus (part.), Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 230; Sun- 



devall, Pecora, 101. 



Hemitragus, a, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 31. 

 Kemas, part., Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 81. 



1. KEMAS WARRYATO. The WARRYATO or JUNGLE KEMAS. 



Brown, yellow grisled. Male: back with a dirty white patch. 

 Female paler. Young ashy grey. 



Capra (Ibex) Warryato, Gray, Mag. N. H. x. 267, 1843, 3 and . 

 Capra Warryato, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 168. 



