Il6 CHARMS AND ATTRACTIONS OF THE PURSUIT OF IBEX. 
were extremely wild, which was accounted for from their 
having been lately harassed by hill men, the Moodowas, who 
had constructed across one of their runs, a barrier of stout 
bushes, forming a strong hedge, with weak places ten or 
twelve feet apart; across which a strong running noose was 
firmly secured. The ibex were then driven up to these 
barriers and were ruthlessly snared and sliot. 
Jerdon^s description of this animal is as follows : — 
"The adult male is a dark sepia brown^ with a pale reddish 
brown saddle more or less marked, and paler brown on the 
sides and beneath. Legs somewhat grizzled with white, 
dark brown in front, and paler posteriorly. The head is 
dark, grizzled with yellowish brown, and the eye is sur- 
rounded by a pale fawn-coloured ring. Horns shorty much 
curved, nearly in contact at the base, gradually diverging, 
strongly keeled internally, round externally, with numerous 
close rings not so prominent as in the Tahr, There is a 
large callous spot on the knees surrounded by a fringe of 
hair, and the male has a short stiff mane on the neck and 
withers. The hair is short, thick and coarse."^ 
It was on the 6th of March, 1S54 that 1 killed my first 
ibex, 1 had gone on the 2nd with Brine to an old ruined 
Tappu Station between the Avalanche and Sispara. We 
w^alked the last fourteen miles to get ourselves in trim. On 
arriving, I found my tent already pitched and all very com- 
fortable. The next morning, the 3rd, we were out by six 
o'clock and went over a mountain where Brine a short time 
* Mr. Lydeker, in an article in the Fidd newspaper of March 19th, 
1892, states that the Niclgherry ibex lias a beard, which forms another 
point of distinction between the Wariatii and the Tahr. This appears 
to be a mistake, as the ibex of the Nielgherries has no beard. — Ed. 
