PERSIAN WILD GOAT—SIND WILD GOAT 



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Skull and Horns of Sind Wild Goat. From A. O. Hume's specimen. 



PERSIAN WILD GOAT (Capra hircus aegagrus). 

 SIND WILD GOAT (Capra Mrcus blytM). 



The horns of the Persian wild goat, which appears to be the 

 ancestral form of the domestic goat of Europe (C hircus), differ from 

 those of the various species of ibex by having no distinct front surface, 

 but merely a sharp notched keel, representing the inner front angle of 

 the ibex horn. In old males the beard is very long. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is brownish gray in winter and reddish brown 

 in summer, with the under parts white, and blackish brown and white 

 markings on the face and limbs. Height at shoulder reaching to 1J 

 inches. 



The so-called Sind ibex {C. hircus blytlii) appears to be a second 

 local race of the species, inhabiting Sind and parts of Baluchistan, 

 where it probably passes imperceptibly into the Persian race. It 

 is distinguished mainly by a slight difference in the form of the 

 horns. 



