The Capricorns, Mammals of an Asiatic Type. 



forsake their own feeding grounds. In cloudy weather they 

 feed at all hours of the day; in fair weather, only morning 

 and evening. When one is alarmed it gives a short hissing 

 sound, which is answered by all within hearing, (xoral stalk- 

 ing is with many a favorite sport in the middle ranges of the 

 Himalaya. The illustration of the Himalayan Goral herewith 

 given is enlarged from Lydekker's work above cited; for the 

 use of it here I am indebted to the Colovddo Springs Gazette. 







Himalayan Goral. 



If the range of the Pike's Peak Capricorn corresponded 

 nearly with that of the Himalayan, and the cave of the Cap- 

 ricorn-eating carnivore was conveniently located within the 

 zone of greatest abundance of the (juarry — 5,000 to 0,000 feet 

 above sea-level — the Rocky Mountain plateau must have stood 

 sonu'thiiig like one or two thousand feet lower in its Capri- 



