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the goats ; false hoofs mere callosities. Attitude of rest less gathered 

 and firm, with the head lower and the hack straight. Shoulders 

 decidedly lower than croup ; fore-quarters not more massive than the 

 hind, nor their extremities stronger. Hair of two sorts — the outer 

 hair, of a harsh, brittle, quill-like character, serpentined internally 

 with the salient bows of one hair fitting into the resilient bends of 

 another, but externally, straight and porrect from the skin, very 

 abundant, and of medial uniform length all over the body : the inner 

 coat, soft and woolly, rather spare, and not more abundant than in 

 the Goat. Horns, 22 inches along the curve, inserted high above the 

 orbits, on the crown of the forehead, touching nearly at base with 

 their whole depth, and carrying the frontal bones very high up be- 

 tween them ; the parietals heing depressed in an equal degree. The 

 horns diverge greatly, but can scarcely be said to be spirally turned. 

 They are first directed upwards, considerably before the facial line, and 

 then sweep downwards with a bold curve : the points again being re- 

 curved upwards and inwards. They are uncompressed, triangular, 

 broadly convexed to the front, and cultrated to the back. Their an- 

 terior face is the widest, and is presented almost directly forwards ; 

 their lateral faces, which are rectilinear, have an oblique aspect, and 

 unite in an acutish angle at the back. They are transversely wrink- 

 led, except near the tips, which are round and smooth. Colour pale. 

 The colour of the animal is a pale slaty blue, obscured with earthy 

 brown, in summer overlaid with a rufous tint. Head below, and in- 

 sides of the limbs and hams, yellowish white. Edge of the buttocks 

 behind and of the tail, pare white ; face and fronts of the entire limbs 

 and chest, blackish ; bands on the flanks, the same, and also tip of the 

 tail. Tongue and palate dark. Nude skin of lips and nose black. 

 Eye yellow-hazel. No odour. Is found in the wild state in the Ka- 

 char region of Nipal, north of the Jharal, amid the glaciers of the 

 Himalaya, and both on the Indian and Tibetan sides of the snowy crest 

 of that range. Is sufficiently bold and scandeut, but far less pugna- 

 cious, capricious, and curious, than the Jharal. Much less easily 

 acclimatised in foreign parts than he is ; in confinement more resigned 

 and apathetic, and has none of the JharaVs propensity to bark trees 

 with his horns, and to feed upon that bark and upon young shoots and 

 aromatic herb3. I have tried in vain to make the Ndhoor breed with 

 tame sheep, because he will not copulate with them. The female of 

 the species has the chaffron straight, and short, erect, sub-recurved, 

 and greatly depressed horns. The young want, at first, the marks on 

 the limbs and flanks, and their nose is straight. 

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