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old male — a young male and a female— there is also a 

 specimen of the straight horned or Trans Indus Mark- 

 hor. Markhor shooting is the finest of Indian stalking. 

 This goat frequents the most precipitous and difficult 

 localities and as Colonel Kinloch, one of our most 

 experienced shikaris, says " no animal's pursuit leads 

 the sportsman over such dangerous ground as that of 

 the M a rkhor." 



NOS. 18 to 22— Capra Sibirica.— The Himala- 

 yan Ibex. 



Habitat. — Throughout the Himalayas from Kashmir 

 to Nepal. 



General colour light brownish with a dark stripe 

 down the back in summer, dirty yellowish white in 

 winter — beard, about six inches long, black ; horns 

 scimitar-shaped, curving over the neck, flattened at 

 the sides and strongly ridged in front. Large horns 

 vary from 40 to 50 inches — a pair of 51 inches is 

 recorded in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 for 1 840 but the largest pair in this collection mea- 



