172 CATALOGUE. 



they are bred by the middling and lower classes of people. The milk 

 is given to the kids, and those which are not required for keeping up 

 the breed, are fattened for eating. 



" The colour of the males is white, with the nose, and space about 

 the eyes, flesh-coloured. A few are said to be blackish, and some have 

 been seen of a tan- colour. The horns and hoofs are whitish. From 

 the nose to the rump they measure about four feet, and at the shoulders 

 are about one foot eleven inches high. The hair is coarse, straight ; 

 and everywhere, but on part of the face, on the ears, and legs, is long 

 and pendulous, and has no wool mixed with it, by which this species is 

 easily distinguished from the Shawl-goat. The hair on the under part 

 of the neck is very long. The horns, at their base, occupy the whole 

 space between the ears, and their two inner edges are contiguous ; they 

 are flattened and two-edged, but the inner edge is sharper, while the 

 outer is rounded. The flat side, that is turned forwards, is bounded 

 inwards by an elevated ridge, and marked by transverse wrinkles. An 

 elevated ridge runs obliquely over it from the outer angle at the base 

 to the inner edge near the tip. The horns are about the length of the 

 head, and are either placed nearly in the plane of the face, or bend 

 back somewhat from that direction : they diverge considerably out- 

 wards, and end in sharp points. The ears spread, are about half the 

 length of the horns, and are covered with short hair, which is the case 

 with the legs below the hock joints. The hoofs are short and blunt. 

 The tail is small and short." (Dr. F. (Buchanan) Hamilton's MS.) 



247. (Var. B.) CAPRA ^EGAGRUS CHANGRA, Dr. F. 

 {Buchanan) Hamilton, Icon. Mus. Soc. Ind. Or. 



Capra JEg. lanigera, Bouc de Cachemire, C. Hircus, var. D, 



Desm. Mamm. p. 483. 



Shawl-Goat, or Changra, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 34. 

 SHAWL- GOAT, of the English, Hamilton, I. cit. 

 CAMJOO, of Tibet, Hamilton. 

 CHANGRA, of the Parbutties, Hamilton. 

 CHOLAY, of the Nawars, Hamilton. 



HAB. Tibet, Dr. F. (B.) H. 



A. A Drawing in Dr. F. (Buchanan) Hamilton's Col- 

 lection. 



" This animal is domesticated in Tibet, and the wool is exported to 

 Cashmire, where it is manufactured into various cloths and felts, of 

 which the finest are in Europe known by the name of Shawl. For 



