1024 On the tame Sheep, fyc. of Tibet. [Oct. 



Coecum 12 inches by 3. Knees and chest nude and callous. Sub- 

 fleece frequently wanting. Almost always so in summer. 



4. Capra Dt'igd. — The Dugu. This is the Goat of the central re- 

 gion of the sub-Himalayas. But the remark applied to this region in 

 reference to the sheep holds almost equally good as to the goats. In 

 fact the central and lower regions of the sub-Himalayas are unsuited to 

 goats or sheep owing to their rank pasture, excessive moisture and 

 enormous superabundance of leeches and other parasitic creatures 

 generated by heat and moisture amid a luxuriant vegetation. The 

 Dugu is bred only in small numbers by householders — and only for 

 home consumption of the milk and flesh, both of which are excellent 

 and eagerly consumed by the highest castes. The Dugu extremely 

 resembles, and is probably identical with, the ordinary domestic goat 

 of the lower provinces, that of the upper provinces — viz. the large 

 gaunt Roman-nosed, monstrous-eared Jamnapari — being unknown to 

 these mountains, and unable to endure their climate in any part. The 

 Jamnapari (Capra Jamnaparia) becomes in the mountains goitrous, 

 casts its young prematurely, breeds not, and hardly exists. But the 

 little goat of moist Bengal does very well in the moist climate of the 

 central and lower hills ; and accordingly, I believe, that as the upper 

 region of the hills is indebted to Tibet for its goats, so the central and 

 lower regions are indebted to Bengal and Behar for theirs,* and that the 

 animal we are now to describe is at least, in origin, the common domes- 

 tic Goat of the Gangetic provinces, from Allahabad to Calcutta nearly. 



The Dugu of the central or lower regions of the hills is distinguish- 

 ed from all the breeds of Tibet and of the Cachar by the frequent, 

 absence, in the females particularly, of the long hair, and the nearly as 

 frequent absence of the interdigital pits, belonging to those races or 

 breeds. The males however of the Dugu breed are often as shaggy as 

 the Changra or Sinai ; whilst in the latter species, as we have seen, the 

 feet pits are not invariable. Upon the whole, "feet pits in the fore 

 feet only or none" seems to be the proper generic formula quoad this 

 organ ; whilst long or short hair can be admitted only as a very subor- 

 dinate character ; and with those exceptions, the Dugu is thoroughly 



* F. Cuvier's notices of Nepalese goats are altogether apochryphal, though copied au 

 pied de la lettre by the English Editors of the Regne Animal and Natural Library. The 

 exotics of the Residency have become Nepal species, and the poor Jamnapari which we 

 tried so vainly to acclimatise, figures as the Nepaul Goat ! ! ! 



