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THE JAHIIAL. 
compressed, subtriaiigular, and uniformly wrinkled 
across, except near the tips, where they are rounded 
and smooth, peeled and sharpened towards the points, 
and obtusely rounded behind. The colour of the 
animal is a saturate brown superficially, but inter- 
nally, heavy blue, and the mane for the most part, 
wholly of that hue. Fore arms, lower part of the 
horns, and back of the legs rusty, entire fronts of the 
limbs, and whole face and cheeks, blackish-brown, 
the dark colour on the two last parts divided by a 
longitudinal line of pale rufous, and another before 
the eye shorter. Lips and chin hairy, with a blackish 
patch on either side below the gape ; tip of the tail 
and ears blackish, tongue, palate, and naked skin of 
the lips and muzzle, black. Iris deep reddish hazel. 
The Jahral is found wild in the Kachan region of 
Nepaul, in small flocks or solitary. It is bold, capri- 
cious, wanton, eminently scansorial, pugnacious, and 
easily tamed and acclimated in foreign parts.* 
Having thus noticed what are now esteemed as 
the distinct species of the Goat or genus Capra exist- 
ing in a state of nature, we shall proceed to survey 
one or two of the principal breeds or varieties, some 
of which are very different from the animals we have 
been now describing, and seem almost to assume a 
distinct and continued breed, so that there is much 
difficulty in supposing them, as ever derived from any 
* Hodgson, Proceedings of Zoological Society, part ii- 
p. 106 . 
