1835.] of the Himdlaya. 491 



tending to illustrate the distinctions between Capra and Ovis, and 

 more particularly, to test the accuracy of those indications which are 

 generally admitted by authors, by applying them to the wild species 

 of either genus which belongs to the Himalaya. 



For the last two years, I have had alive in my garden, a splendid 

 specimen of the mature male of each, and I have frequently compared 

 them together in all respects of manners and of structure. As the 

 goat in question, as well as the sheep is new*, I will begin with a 

 synoptical description of the two, and then proceed to notice the 

 points of difference and agreement existing between them. 



Tribe Caprid,e — H. Smith. 



Genus — Capra, Ditto. 



Species — C. Jharal. New, the Jharal of the Nipalese. 



Affined to the Alpine (Egagri, and to Jemlaica. Adult male, 50 to 5G 

 inches long from snout to rump, and 36 to 40 high. Head finely 

 formed, and full of beauty and expression. Clad in close short hair, 

 and without the least vestige of a beard ; facial line, straight ; ears 

 small, narrow, erect, rounded at tips, and striated; eye, lively ; between 

 the nares, a black moist skin, nares themselves short and wide ; 

 knees and sternum, callous ; tail, short, depressed, wholly nude below. 

 Animal of compact, powerful make, with a sparish, short, and bowed 

 neck, deep barrel and chest, and longish, very strong and rigid limbs, 

 supported on perpendicular pasterns and high compact hoofs ; false 

 hoofs conic and considerably developed ; attitude of rest gathered and 

 firm, with the head moderately raised, and the back sub-arched. 

 Shoulders decidedly higher than the croup ; fore quarters superb, and 

 wholly invested in a long, flowing, straight, lion-like mane, some- 

 what feathered vertically from the crown of the withers, and sweep- 

 ing down below the knees ; hind-quarters poor and porcine, much 

 sloped off from the croup to the tail, and the skin much constricted 

 between the hams behind ; fur of two sorts — the outer hair of mode- 

 rate harshness, nor wiry nor brittle, straight, and applied to the skin, 

 but erigible under excitement, and of unequal lengths and colours ; 

 the inner, soft and woolly, as abundant as in the wild sheep, and 

 finer, of one length and colour. Horns 9 to 12 inches long, inserted 

 obliquely on the crest of the frontals, and touching at base with their 

 anterior edges, sub -compressed, sub -triangular, and uniformly wrink- 

 led across, except near the tips, where they are rounded and smooth ; 

 keeled and sharpened to the front, obtusely rounded behind : the 



*My own imperfect account of both, in the Society's Transactions, is the only 

 one extant. 



