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P. 119. Is there an Ibex from N. Sikhim and Lhasa ? Ihave always heard 
that the Sutlej forms their 8. E. boundary. I have met natives of 
Lahoul carrying Ibex horns into Tibetan territory, and they may be 
occasionally seen amongst the loads of the nomad ‘‘ chumpa ” cara- 
vans which move annually between Ladak and Tibet. Horns from 
the Brahmaputra or Ganges catchment area should be very care- 
fully authenticated. 
Varkhor— Capra megaceros. 
P. 132. Animals from Sheikh Budin and the hills between Bannu and the 
Indus are much smaller in body than the Kashmir specimens. The 
males are ash coloured and have a chin-beard. The rut begins in 
the last week in October. 
Himalayan Tahr—Capra jemlaicus, 
The normal weight is considerably under 200 lbs., about 180 Ibs. 
A buck Ibex, which stands two inches higher at the shoulder, weighs 
200 lbs. Vide measurement sent to B. N. H. 8.* 
P. 136. The purport of this statement is vague, namely, that the habitat of 
Tahr is hotter than that of the Rocky Mountain Goa Goat. Tahr 
follow the melting snow up to 11,000 feet, and rarely descend below 
8,000 feet till November ; consequently their retention of the long 
coat is to be expected. 
Nilgiri Tahr—Capra hylocrius. 
P. 138. The saddle-mark is partially seasonal, fading away almost completely 
in the summer in some specimens. 
Black buck—Antilope cervicapra. 
P. 178. The black fades considerably in all old males in the hot season, but 
I have noticed that this seasonal peculiarity of colouring is more em- 
phasised in Central and Southern India than in the Punjab. I, how- 
ever, saw in Patiala in the winter of 1919-20, a large herd of buck 
containing not less than 6 fully adult males with horns of 21 inches 
or over, but which did not have a single black one amongst them. 
Chinkara—Gazella bennettt. 
P. 202. The specimens I have seen from the Peshawar Valley have distinctly 
lyrate horns. I shot one of this type close to Jalezai at the foot of 
the Cherat hills, and there was another very good example in the 
Mess at Jamrud which had been killed a couple of miles to-the north 
of the fort. 
The height of many specimens I have measured in different parts 
of India has always been just about 26 inches, occasionally half-an- 
inch over. 
Kashmir Stag—Cervus kashmirianus. 
P. 211. In a 40-inch 8 pointer shot by me in Kishtwar, the trez tine is 
missing. In two other large 8 point heads I have seen, the first 
from the Sind Valley (44 inches) and the second (40 inches) from the 
Kishenganga, the trez tine is missing in each. The Kishenganga 
head is an abnormally thick one. 
Malay Sambhar—Cervus unicolor equinus. 
P. 232. The girth of horns seems greater in N.-W. Burma than in the dry 
zone or the valley of the lower Salwin. These I have seen from 
Tenasserim are very thin. The two thickest heads I have seen of 
this sub-species came from the Buxa Duars. 
They seem very free from extra points and basal snags as a rule, 
but I saw a 343 inch head in a Siamese gendarmerie officers’ house at 
Mesawt (just across the frontier in the Thaungyin Valley) which had 
eleven points; the five extra points were three large basal snags and 
a duplication of each top inner tine. This head came from Karenni. 
* Vide Miscellaneous Note No. VII of this issue. 
