THE SHEEP AND GOATS 
a house, and spend the day there by prefer- 
ence, though allowed the run ofall the premises. 
The kids are generally two in number; they 
are born in June. 
The ibex was long one of the chief 
objects of the Alpine hunter. The Emperor 
Maximilian had a preserve of them in the 
Tyrol mountains near the Aachen Sea; these 
he shot with a cross-bow when they were 
driven down the mountains. Sometimes they 
were forced across the lake. A picture in 
his private hunting-book shows the Emperor 
assisting to catch one in a net from a boat. 
He notes that he once shot an ibex at a 
distance of 200 yards with a cross-bow, after 
one of his companions had missed it with a 
gun, or “fire-tube.”. When away on an ex- 
pedition in Holland, he wrote a letter to the 
wife of one of the most noted ibex-poachers 
on his domain, promising her a silk dress if 
she could induce her husband to let the 
animals alone. In the Himalaya the chief 
foes of the ibex are the snow-leopard and 
wild dog. 
THE MARKHOR 
The very fine Himalayan goat of this 
name differs from all other wild species. The 
horns are spiral, like those of the kudu 
Photo by S, G, Payne, Aylesbury, by permission of the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild 
YOUNG MALE ALPINE IBEX 
The photograph shows the corrugated horns of the male 
MALE ALPINE IBEX 
The finest wild goat of Europe, formerly common on the Swiss Alps, 
now only on a limited area on the Italtan side 
antelope and Wallachian sheep. It may well 
be called the king of the wild goats. A 
buck stands as much as 41 inches at the 
shoulder, and the maximum measurement of 
the horns is 63 inches, or over 5 feet! It 
has a long beard and mane, and stands very 
upright on its feet. Besides the Himalaya, 
it haunts the mountains on the Afghan 
frontier. The markhor keep along the line 
between the forest and snow, some of the 
most difficult ground in the hills. The horns 
are a much-prized trophy. 
THE TAHR 
The TAHR of the Himalaya is a very 
different-looking animal to the true goats, 
from which, among other characters, it is 
distinguished by the form and small size 
