American Big Game in its Haunts 



SHEEP (Ovis). 



1. Muzzle hairy except be- 

 tween and just above the 

 nostrils. 



2. Interdigital glands on all 

 the feet. 



3. Suborbital gland and pit 

 usually present. 



4. No beard nor caprine 

 smell in male. 



5. Horns with coarse trans- 

 verse wrinkles; yellowish 

 or brown; sub-triangular 

 in male, spreading out- 

 ward and forward with a 

 circular sweep, points 

 turned outward and for- 

 ward. 



GOAT (Capra). 

 i. Muzzle entirely hairy. 



2. Interdigital glands, when 

 present, only on fore feet. 



3. Sub-orbital gland and pit 

 never present. 



4. Male with a beard and 

 caprine smell. 



5. Horns with fine transverse 

 striations, or bold knobs 

 in front ; blackish ; in male 

 more compressed or angu- 

 lar, sweeping backward 

 with a scythe-like curve or 

 spirally, points turned up- 

 ward and backward. 



These features are distinctive as between most 

 sheep and most goats, but the Barbary wild sheep 

 (Ovis tragelaphus) has no suborbital gland or pit, 

 a goat-like peculiarity which it shares with the 

 Himalayan bharal (Ovis nahura), in which the 

 horns resemble closely those of a goat from the 

 eastern Caucasus called tur (Capra cyHndricor- 

 ), which for its part has the horns somewhat 

 sheep-like and a very small beard. This same 

 bharal has the goat-like habit of raising itself upon 

 its hind legs before butting. 



Both groups are a comparatively late develop- 

 ment of the bovine stock, as they do not certainly 



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