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with their anteal sharp edges, but diverge towards their rounded posteal 

 faces, and curve upwards, outwards and backwards, with much diver- 

 gency and with one lax spiral twist, leaving the flat smooth points 

 directed upwards and backwards. The compression of the horns is 

 great, so that their basal section is elliptic or rather acute conoid, and 

 the keel is neither very distinctly separated from the body of the 

 horns, nor does it exhibit any salient knots, but is rather blended into 

 the lateral surfaces, and chiefly indicated by the deflexion of the 

 wrinkles of the horns, which are numerous and crowded but not heavy, 

 and go pretty uniformly round the horns, but form a decided angle at 

 the commencement of the keel. The ears are longish, narrow, 

 obtusely pointed and pendant, with very little mobility. The short 

 strong rigid limbs are supported on high vertical hoofs, and have 

 obtusely conic false hoofs, pretty amply developed behind them. The 

 essential structure in these animals is perfectly conformable to the 

 type of the genus as above defined. That is to say, they have hairy 

 noses void of mufle ; horns common to both sexes ; no trace of gland 

 or of pit below the eye or in the groin ; small feet, pits confined to the 

 fore extremities but they are distinctly marked and invariable. No gland 

 nor tuft on the stifle ; odour intense in the males ; a true beard, 

 proper to both sexes, and invariably forthcoming callosities on the 

 knees ; and, lastly, horns inserted like those of sheep on the top of 

 the head, but cultrated to the front, not to the rear, much more oblique- 

 ly set on the head, more compressed, less angular, and showing 

 palpable evidence of the keel in that particular form which it exhibits 

 in (Egagrus, — the true wild type of Capra or the goats proper ; whereas 

 Ibex is a distinct type analogous to the Moufflons or Caprovis.* In 

 the Changras there is, in fact, hardly any deviation from the wild type, 

 except in the large and pendant ears ; so that domestication would 

 seem to have made less impression on these animals than on the sheep, 

 though its effects on both groups have been less obliterative than is 

 generally supposed ; and it will be seen in the sequel, that all the tame 

 Goats of these regions conform to their assumed wild prototype, with 

 hardly less deviation than is seen in the above careful survey of the 

 Changra. 



The females of the Changra are smaller than the males, and have 

 * See paper before adverted to in Journal Asiatic Society. 



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