THE JAHRAL. 
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A fifth species of goat has yet to be noticed, for 
which we are indebted to the researches of Mr 
Hodgson, who makes his observations from living 
specimens kept in his garden. It is 
THE JAIIRAL. 
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Capra Jaliral — Hodgson. 
It is closely allied by the characters of the horns 
to the Alpine iEg^ri, and still more to the C. Jem- 
^ahica of our last plate. It differs from the former 
the less volume of the horns, by their smooth an- 
terior edge, and by the absence of a beard ; from the 
Htter, by the horns being much less compressed, not 
turned inwards at the point, nor nodose. The adult 
®ale is fifty inches in length from the snout to the 
tump, and thirty-three inches high. The head is 
finely formed, full of expression, clad in close short 
fiair, and without the least vestige of a beard. The 
animal is of a compact and powerful make. The 
fiur is of two sorts, the outer, hair of moderate harsh- 
Hess, neither wiry nor brittle, straight and applied to 
the skin, but irrigible under excitement, and of un- 
equal length and colour ; the inner, soft and woolly, 
as abundant as in the wild sheep, and finer, of one 
length and colour. The horns are nine inches long, 
inserted obliquely in the crest of the firontals, and 
touching at the base, with thin anterior edges, .sub- 
