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THE GOATS 
Are a small well-defined group, consisting of but a few species. 
They have no suborbital sinus nor interdigital pits; forehead convex, elevated behind; horns are erect, 
compressed, curved backwards and rather outwards, and furnished with a longitudinal keel in front, deeper 
than wide at the base, with transverse knots in front ; hoofs four-sided, scarcely higher before than behind ; 
the skull has no suborbital pit, and only a small suborbital fissure ; the grinders are without any supple- 
mentary lobes, and the cutting-teeth are not expanded at the tip. 
The males have a strong stench ; bleat ; and they butt, first raising themselves on their hind-legs, and 
then coming down sideways with the weight of the body falling against their enemy. 
The horns, like those of some varieties of sheep, have an inclination to twist more or less spirally, 
and they then assume the form of the Strepsiceres. 
They are divided only into two genera. 
1. HEMITRAGUS (Hodgson^, Hemicapra (^Hodgson), Kemas {Ogilhy, not H. Smith). 
Nose cervine, with a small, moist muffle between the nostrils ; horns short, recurved ; interdigital and sub- 
orbital pores none. Female : horns smaller ; teats four. Odour like the Goats. 
This genus only contains two species, found on the mountains of Asia. 
* Horns thick, subquadr angular, rounded on the outer and flat on the inner side in front, closely ringed. 
The Warryato. Hemitragus Warryato. 
Head dark brown, yellow grisled ; " back with a dirty white patch." Female yellower ; back without 
the patch ; liorns smaller. Young kid ash-grey. 
Ca-pra Warryato, Gray, Mag. N. H. 1842, 267 —Kemas hylocrius, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1837, 81 (the female). — 
Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 259, note. — Cap. hylocria, Schinz. — Warryato or Hill Goat of the Tamooleans, Hardw. 
Icon. ined. Brit. Mus. n. 10,775. t. 192, 193. — Wild Sheep of Tanasserim, how, Journ. Roy. Asiat. See. 
1836, 50? 
Inhabits India ; Nilgherries. R. Partridge, Esq. Brit. Mus. 
My friend Mr. Robert Partridge has furnished me with the following notes on the habits of this 
animal : — 
" Idea^ of the Nilgherry Hills. — This animal is an inhabitant of the Nilgherry Hills, and the continuation 
of the western range of the Ghauts to their termination. Its habits resemble those of the European Ibex, 
living in like declivitous and inaccessible places, and with a similarity of watchfulness and delicacy of smell. 
They are generally seen in herds of from fifteen to forty or fifty. The adult male grows to the height of 
nearly three feet, the female some six inches less. The colour of the hair, both in the male and female, 
will be seen from the specimens sent ; but it may be observed, that with age the black points in the male 
increase, and there will be seen in the male specimen an approach to a greyish white patch in the back, 
which with age also gets nearly a dirty white, and is particularly distinguishable at a distance : the colour 
of the female does not appear to alter : the young male is nearly the colour of the female, without any 
black. The horns in the male grow to the length of 20 inches ; those of the female I have never seen 
more than 12. No beard in the male has yet been discovered. It has the blast and whistle of the Cha- 
mois when alarmed. The females have one kid at a birth, of an ashy grey colour. A species of rot 
prevails amongst them, which in some years carries off great quantities." 
